girls:
10 births since 1993
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.8k births since 1885
#1257 (73rd percentile)
overall:
8.8k births since 1885
#2875 (63rd percentile)
The name Estevan is the #2,875 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,836 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 62.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,257 (72.6% percentile) for all time with 8,826 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1993.
Estevan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Estevan is available in 111 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (111 years for boys and 2 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 Estevan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Estevan reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 32.2% percentile (ranked #560) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 134 births per million (ranked 32.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Estevan ranks #851 for boys (6.6% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 26.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Estevan reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #849) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Estevan".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Estevan.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Estevan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Estevan.
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Estevan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Estevan is pronounced as eh-STEH-vuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-stuh-vuhn, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Estevan? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Estevan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Estevan, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH0 S T EH1 V AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker