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Estefania

#2,129 in 2025Girls' name

From Spanish Estefanía; literal meaning unconfirmed

Estefania has been given to 7,043 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #2,129 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 386 recorded.

Babies named Estefania, 2025

1 in 37,700

Estefania over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Estefania: meaning, origin, and history

From Spanish Estefanía; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Estefania means

Estefania is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Estefania is used in German.

Estefania comes through Spanish Estefanía and Portuguese Estefânia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Estefania is pronounced /ɛstəˈfaːni̯a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,038 girls were recorded with the name Estefania between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 386 in 1996; its best national rank was #591 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,798 in 2020 to #2,129 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,255 in 2015 to #2,129 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Estefania between 1991 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1991; its best national rank was #8,608 in 1991.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Estefania?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,129
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Estefania sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Estefania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Estefanias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Estefania was born before 2002 — so the typical Estefania is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,038
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (2,536).

Is Estefania rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−331
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−874
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.8%
Peak was 1996 (386)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#591
1996

Spellings of Estefania

Estefania is not the most common spelling — Stefanie is, with 56.7% against Estefania's 10.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Estefania is used

Across 2016–2025, Estefania was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 11,095 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 6,250
  2. 2California1 in 7,143
  3. 3Florida1 in 10,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 11,111
  5. 5Arizona1 in 12,500
  6. 6Georgia1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Estefania around the world

Where Estefania ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1973–1983
    #2,677
    in 1983

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Estefania

People whose public names include Estefania, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Estefania by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,129
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 331
Best rank ever
#591
1996
Peak year
1996
386 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,038
Count in 2025
88

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,608
1991
Peak year
1991
5 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Estefania

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Estefania

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Estefania, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Estefania

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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