Estevan

Where Estevan comes from

Estevan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #936 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Peak, #681
    232 babies named Estevan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1997
    Estevan Florial born
    Dominican-Haitian baseball player
  4. 2000
    Estevan Oriol born
    American photographer
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,538.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Estevan Florial · Dominican-Haitian baseball player, born 1997
  • Estevan Travanca
  • Estevan Oriol · American photographer, born 2000
  • Estevan Fernandiz
  • Estevan Reimondo

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.