girls:
31 births since 1991
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
34.2k births since 1891
#613 (87th percentile)
overall:
34.3k births since 1891
#1357 (82nd percentile)
The name Esteban is the #1,357 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,253 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 82.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #613 (86.6% percentile) for all time with 34,222 births since 1891. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1991.
Esteban first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Esteban is available in 119 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (119 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Esteban has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Esteban reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 64.9% percentile (ranked #307) with 481 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 481 births per million (ranked 64.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Esteban ranks #405 for boys (55.6% percentile) with 381 births per million, which is 79.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Esteban reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #848) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Esteban".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Esteban. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Esteban is pronounced as eh-STEH-buhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-stuh-bahn, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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