Esteban
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #11,138 · #461 for boys in 2025, 673 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 1,024 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 35,592since 1891
Esteban over time
Rank among boys' names. Esteban has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #461 | 673 | |
| 2024 | — | #458 | 682 | |
| 2023 | — | #442 | 703 | |
| 2022 | — | #431 | 718 | |
| 2021 | — | #435 | 716 | |
| 2020 | — | #471 | 633 | |
| 2019 | — | #446 | 685 | |
| 2018 | — | #440 | 687 | |
| 2017 | — | #428 | 725 | |
| 2016 | — | #416 | 762 | |
| 2015 | — | #399 | 775 | |
| 2014 | — | #395 | 790 | |
| 2013 | — | #392 | 761 | |
| 2012 | — | #392 | 760 | |
| 2011 | — | #382 | 764 | |
| 2010 | — | #378 | 762 | |
| 2009 | — | #381 | 798 | |
| 2008 | — | #364 | 853 | |
| 2007 | — | #354 | 893 | |
| 2006 | — | #331 | 972 | |
| 2005 | — | #320 | 1,024 | |
| 2004 | — | #351 | 810 | |
| 2003 | — | #338 | 843 | |
| 2002 | — | #336 | 817 | |
| 2001 | — | #334 | 827 | |
| 2000 | — | #334 | 822 | |
| 1999 | — | #368 | 710 | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #363 | 717 |
| 1997 | — | #360 | 699 | |
| 1996 | — | #339 | 735 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #354 | 692 |
| 1994 | — | #379 | 619 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #385 | 597 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #389 | 589 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #417 | 541 |
| 1990 | — | #413 | 557 | |
| 1989 | — | #430 | 479 | |
| 1988 | — | #451 | 399 | |
| 1987 | — | #478 | 344 | |
| 1986 | — | #471 | 338 | |
| 1985 | — | #448 | 365 | |
| 1984 | — | #474 | 313 | |
| 1983 | — | #451 | 341 | |
| 1982 | — | #477 | 316 | |
| 1981 | — | #438 | 356 | |
| 1980 | — | #454 | 341 | |
| 1979 | — | #473 | 302 | |
| 1978 | — | #488 | 274 | |
| 1977 | — | #460 | 303 | |
| 1976 | — | #497 | 257 | |
| 1975 | — | #493 | 261 | |
| 1974 | — | #547 | 216 | |
| 1973 | — | #601 | 173 | |
| 1972 | — | #573 | 193 | |
| 1971 | — | #637 | 166 | |
| 1970 | — | #655 | 156 | |
| 1969 | — | #654 | 146 | |
| 1968 | — | #669 | 125 | |
| 1967 | — | #720 | 106 | |
| 1966 | — | #656 | 127 | |
| 1965 | — | #736 | 101 | |
| 1964 | — | #763 | 100 | |
| 1963 | — | #821 | 85 | |
| 1962 | — | #815 | 87 | |
| 1961 | — | #867 | 78 | |
| 1960 | — | #842 | 80 | |
| 1959 | — | #906 | 71 | |
| 1958 | — | #867 | 76 | |
| 1957 | — | #919 | 68 | |
| 1956 | — | #894 | 70 | |
| 1955 | — | #995 | 57 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,101 | 46 | |
| 1953 | — | #868 | 68 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,152 | 41 | |
| 1951 | — | #992 | 50 | |
| 1950 | — | #878 | 61 | |
| 1949 | — | #878 | 61 | |
| 1948 | — | #862 | 63 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,000 | 51 | |
| 1946 | — | #980 | 47 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,078 | 36 | |
| 1944 | — | #918 | 48 | |
| 1943 | — | #980 | 47 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,139 | 36 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,300 | 26 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,334 | 25 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,103 | 34 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,310 | 26 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,481 | 21 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,095 | 35 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,040 | 38 | |
| 1934 | — | #931 | 46 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,202 | 30 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,198 | 32 | |
| 1931 | — | #983 | 45 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,093 | 40 | |
| 1929 | — | #900 | 55 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,228 | 34 | |
| 1927 | — | #911 | 56 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,034 | 45 | |
| 1925 | — | #933 | 52 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,020 | 48 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,420 | 27 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,503 | 25 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,509 | 25 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,382 | 28 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,811 | 18 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,596 | 22 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,459 | 23 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,968 | 14 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,545 | 16 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,676 | 11 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,290 | 8 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,233 | 5 | |
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| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Esteban! It came in at #963, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1891–1908, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Esteban is popular in 1931
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#253 · 1 in 1,533
Best ever in a state: #128 in New Mexico, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #253 | 36 | 1 in 1,533 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Esteban
- 3 spots since 2024 (#458 → #461)
- 10 spots since 2020 (#471 → #461)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#399 → #461)
- Biggest jump: 328 spots in 1929 (#1,228 → #900)
- Biggest drop: 317 spots in 1928 (#911 → #1,228)
- Debuted 1891
- Peaked 2005 at #320 (1,024 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 86 yrs · run 1955–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,950 boys born in 2005 were named Esteban (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,538 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 24.3% of all boys named Esteban (8,659) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #963 (1891) | #963 |
| 1900s | 21 | #1,233 (1905) | #1,284 |
| 1910s | 137 | #1,290 (1911) | #1,710 |
| 1920s | 395 | #900 (1929) | #1,184 |
| 1930s | 347 | #931 (1934) | #1,144 |
| 1940s | 440 | #862 (1948) | #1,047 |
| 1950s | 608 | #867 (1958) | #957 |
| 1960s | 1,035 | #654 (1969) | #754 |
| 1970s | 2,301 | #460 (1977) | #542 |
| 1980s | 3,592 | #430 (1989) | #457 |
| 1990s | 6,456 | #339 (1996) | #377 |
| 2000s | 8,659 | #320 (2005) | #344 |
| 2010s | 7,471 | #378 (2010) | #407 |
| 2020s | 4,125 | #431 (2022) | #450 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Esteban in 1931
Top boys' names in 1931
More about 1931
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1,039,665 boys got a published name in 1931; 1 in 23,104 of them was named Esteban, which outranked 77.3% of the 4,321 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).