Esteve
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Esteve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 777K
- UYUruguay1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
15,005 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esteve counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 15,005 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Esteve | 101 |
| AR Argentina | — | 601 | 1 in 76K | 601 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 428 | 1 in 777K | 478 | Esteve | 140 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 150 | 1 in 23K | 150 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 117 | 1 in 72K | 117 | Esteve | 11 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #489 | — | — | — | Esteve | 1 |
15,005 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Esteve is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, third-person singular preterite indicative of estar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Catalan form of STEPHEN .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Esteve Juanb. 1550ESRoman Catholic bishop
- Agustín Esteveb. 1753ESSpanish artist (1753-1830)
- Pascual Amat y Esteveb. 1856ESSpanish Minister of Justice (1856–1928)
- Gabriel Alomar Esteveb. 1910ESSpanish architect (1910–1997)
- Víctor Balaguerb. 1921ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer (1921-1984)
- Pere Esteve i Abadb. 1942ESSpanish politician (1942–2005)
- Salvador Esteve Figuerasb. 1945ESSpanish politician
- Tania Headb. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish woman who falsely claimed to have been a survivor of the September 11 attacks
- María Esteveb. 1974ESSpanish actress
- Henri Esteveb. 1989UScuban-American actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 15K | #356 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #356 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 601 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 478 | #47,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 428 | #49,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 413 | #48,109 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 150 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 117 | #9,754 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Esteve mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Esteve?
- In the etymology graph, Tapani, Steffan and Fane are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Esteve have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Esteve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esteve.
- Where is Esteve most common?
- Esteve is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Esteve?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,005 people named Esteve, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Esteve compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Esteve is the 489th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esteveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Esteve” — the 489th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.