Esteve
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Esteve is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen.
- RORomania1 in 69◐
- DEGermany1 in 74
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 80
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0M ●
- #23 ●
- 10 ●
- Sources
- 621 ●
- 1 in 69 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
40M records
Official registry-verified
Romania
Spellings & scripts●
14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stefan in DE Germany, RO Romania, PL Poland and 5 more, Stephen in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 3 more, Steven in US United States, CA Canada, IT Italy and Степан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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●
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #6 | 2,606,819 | 2.1M rec. | — | 12 | Stephen | 334 |
| DE Germany | #4 | 1,638,275 | 1.5M rec. | — | 2 | Stefan | 334 |
| AU Australia | #5 | 1,317,224 | 949K rec. | — | 106 | Stephen | 326 |
| UA Ukraine | #68 | 977,649 | 996K rec. | — | listed | Степан | 75 |
| US United States | #8 | 971,970 | 28M rec. | 1 in 342 | 972K | Steven | 621 |
| RU Russia | #97 | 971,485 | 431K rec. | — | #47 | Степан | 163 |
| CA Canada | #6 | 843,178 | 764K rec. | — | 25 | Steven | 274 |
| RO Romania | #10 | 309,900△ | 6.9K rec. | 1 in 69 | 310K | Stefan | 111 |
| FR France | #4 | 308,540 | 2M rec. | 1 in 220 | 309K | Stephane | 403 |
| AT Austria | #3 | 205,320 | 53K rec. | — | 31K | Stefan | 201 |
| PH Philippines | #93 | 169,639 | 129K rec. | — | — | Stephen | 148 |
| IT Italy | #44 | 150,967 | 161K rec. | — | 15 | Steven | 126 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish71K57%
- French27K22%
- Catalan15K12%
- English5.2K4%
- Portuguese1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 71,072 | 57% |
| French | 27,373 | 22% |
| Catalan | 15,022 | 12% |
| English | 5,187 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 1,618 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 340 |
| 1901 | 480 |
| 1911 | 413 |
| 1921 | 588 |
| 1931 | 471 |
| 1941 | 666 |
| 1951 | 730 |
| 1961 | 868 |
| 1971 | 756 |
| 1981 | 707 |
| 1991 | 644 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 29 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 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.5K | #663 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.4K | #1,532 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,787 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 868 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 756 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 730 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 707 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 666 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 644 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 601 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Esteve?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 million people bear Esteve (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Esteve have the most bearers?
- Esteve is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled stephen.
- Where is Esteve most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esteve is densest in Romania — about 1 in 69 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Esteve compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Esteve is the 6th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Esteve mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Esteve” — the 6th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.