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Esteban vs Estephanie

American parents have registered 35,623 Estebans since 1880, against 1,845 Estephanies. Esteban is still ahead, with 673 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Esteban against Estephanie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Esteban Estephanie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Esteban has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Esteban had 548 and Estephanie had 78.

Side by side

  Esteban Estephanie
Total US births 35,6231,845
Most in one year 1,02496
Babies in 2025 6736
Estimated living today 33,0001,800
Median age today 2125
Peak year 20052003
Best rank 320th boys1,896th girls
Rank in 2025 461st13,208th
First recorded 18911983
Girls / boys 31 / 35,5921,845 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Estephanies alive today are over 25; half the Estebans are over 21. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Esteban and Estephanie.