Esteves

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Amsterdam, Brasil, Veiros, Montemor-o-Novo, Viseu, Portugal, Ciudad de Mexico; Esteban, Estêvão

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/estevis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Esteves is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 26K
  • USUnited States1 in 85K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,913 people, 2010

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

Amsterdam, Brasil, Veiros, Montemor-o-Novo, Viseu, Portugal, Ciudad de Mexico; Esteban, Estêvão

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Esteves 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.

Where Esteves is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,9131 in 85K4KEsteves152
UY Uruguay#2801,9531 in 1.7K2KEsteves42
AR Argentina—1,7601 in 26K1.8KEsteves74
ES Spain—1,1371 in 44K1.1KEsteves64
CH Switzerland—1,1111 in 7.6K1.1K—9

3,913 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Esteves is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Estèves, Estéves

  • French surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Portugal

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Estèves, Estéves, Estevès, Estévès, Ēstēvēs

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Estéves, Estèves, Estêves

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Fernanda Montenegro, b. 1929Araci Esteves, b. 1939Erasmo Carlos, b. 1941Jose Esteves, b. 1947Assunção Esteves, b. 1956Adriana Esteves, b. 1969Ricardo Esteves, b. 1979Alfa Semedo, b. 1997Lucas Esteves, b. 2000Tomás Esteves, b. 2002

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado(a) Esteves,Dear Esteves, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Esteves,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Esteves
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204K#8,032
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.9K#8,439
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.2K#9,272
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.8K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#3,946
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#3,943
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.1K#1,053
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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

How do you pronounce Esteves?
A machine transcription gives /estevis/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Esteves mean?
Recorded meaning: Amsterdam, Brasil, Veiros, Montemor-o-Novo, Viseu, Portugal, Ciudad de Mexico; Esteban, Estêvão
In which country does Esteves have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Esteves, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esteves.
Where is Esteves most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esteves is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Esteves?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,913 people named Esteves in 2010, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
How common is Esteves compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Esteves is the 280th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Esteves” — the 280th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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