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Estevan

#2,191 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Estevan has been given to 8,966 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #2,191 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 282 recorded.

Babies named Estevan, 2025

1 in 51,000

Estevan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Estevan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Estevan means

Estevan is a given name.

The naming story behind Estevan

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Estevan in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 96.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Span. Gr. crown”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Estevan, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,956 boys were recorded with the name Estevan between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 282 in 2003; its best national rank was #681 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,818 in 2020 to #2,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,542 in 2015 to #2,191 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Estevan between 1993 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #14,133 in 1995.

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.

How common is Estevan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,191
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Estevan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Estevan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Estevans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Estevan was born before 1997 — so the typical Estevan is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,447
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (2,278).

Is Estevan 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
+24
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−373
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−649
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.0%
Peak was 2003 (282)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#681
1994

Spellings of Estevan

Estevan is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 94.8% against Estevan's 0.66%.

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 Estevan is used

Across 1910–2025, Estevan was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,124 boys, against 1 in 12,053 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

089 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,124
  2. 2Arizona1 in 3,571
  3. 3California1 in 6,250
  4. 4Texas1 in 6,250
  5. 5Colorado1 in 10,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Estevan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Estevan around the world

Where Estevan 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
    1926–2023
    #3,676
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2005–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Estevan

People whose public names include Estevan, 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.

Estevan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Estevan. Linked forms have their own page here.

StevanEstebanEstefan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Estevan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 373
Best rank ever
#681
1994
Peak year
2003
282 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,956
Count in 2025
65

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,133
1995
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Estevan

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

DonavanEstebanSullivanStevanJovanSylvanEstonDevanDonovanDonivanEstefanEstivenEstuardoJavanEstevenEstillEstelTrevanEstherEstavanCavanNevanDonnovanEstefano

Names with a curve like Estevan

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

DonavanGermanAlexandroEfrenNestorOctavioNigelNathanialTyreeKeonJaronCortez

Sibling names for Estevan

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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