Esteban

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Stefano in IT Italy, FR France, RO Romania and 7 more, Stephen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more and Estevao in BR Brazil, IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Esteban is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name259K records spelled Esteban20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Estéban, Estebán, Ęsteban, Ésteban, Éstébán

• Catalan given name72K records spelled Esteban3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Andorra

  Also written Estéban, Estebán

• a separate given name35K records spelled Esteban3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Bolivia

  Also written Estéban, Estebán

• Lao given name14K records spelled Esteban36 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Ëstëbän, เอสเตบัน, Éstébán, Estebän, Estéban

• Indonesian given name5.7K records spelled Esteban2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Peru

  Also written Ésteban

• Polish given name2.6K records spelled Esteban6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written Estéban, Éstébán, Ęstębãn, Êstêbân, Ëstëbäń

72 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.

Other recorded senses●

Esteban is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Spanish form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos ‘crown, garland’

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In Spanish, Stephen (biblical character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Se Stefan.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Forme espagnole d’Étienne/Étienne; origine grecque, « couronné ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, Spanish form of Stephen

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Estêvão da Gamab. 1505PTnot in their usual namePortuguese colonial governor
• Antonio Skármetab. 1940CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer and ambassador (1940–2024)
• Steven Bauerb. 1956CUnot in their usual nameEuro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur
• Juanesb. 1972COnot in their usual nameColombian musician (born 1972)
• Esteban Lamotheb. 1977ARArgentinian actor
• Esteban Cambiassob. 1980ARArgentine association football player
• Esteban Granerob. 1987ESSpanish footballer
• Esteban Alvaradob. 1989CRCosta Rican football player
• Esteban Gutiérrezb. 1991MXMexican race car driver
• Esteban Oconb. 1996FRFrench racing driver

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 979 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Esteban?

We estimate roughly 810 thousand people bear Esteban (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Esteban have the most bearers?

Esteban is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled esteban.

How common is Esteban compared with other names?

In Argentina, Esteban is the 102nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Esteban a male or female name?

Esteban is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Esteban mean?

Recorded meaning: from Greek Stephanos ‘garland, crown’, from stem meaning ‘to encircle, crown’.