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Esteve

Boys' name

Crown, through Stephanus

Esteve has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Esteve, 2001

1 in 624,000

Esteve over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esteve: meaning, origin, and history

Crown, through Stephanus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esteve means

Esteve belongs to the name family reached through Esteve → Stephanus. Its meaning is “crown”.

Origin, language, and formation

Esteve is used in Catalan.

Esteve comes through Latin Stephanus and Ancient Greek Στέφανος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephen and Stephanus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Esteve between 1989 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #7,237 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Esteve?

Esteve had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 624,000
6 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
432,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esteve 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 2001 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 432,315 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esteve. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esteves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esteve was born before 1992 — so the typical Esteve is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Esteve 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (7)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,237
1995

Spellings of Esteve

Esteve is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 82.8% against Esteve's <0.01%.

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.

Esteve around the world

Where Esteve 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
    1908–2025
    #4,536
    in 2025

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

Esteve by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,237
1995
Peak year
1995
7 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Esteve

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

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Sibling names for Esteve

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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