Estes
About 601 American babies have been named Estes since 1887, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 150 Esteses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Estes boys named Estes
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 601
- Estimated living today
- 150
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,240th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 56 / 545
How old the living Esteses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 601 babies given the name since 1887, about 150 are alive — 26 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Estess
- Estes Kefauver (1903–1963)American politician
People named Estes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Estes is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Estes peaked:
Related names
Estes against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.