Etienne

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Etienne boys named Etienne

By the numbers

Total US births

1,711

Estimated living today

1,500

Median age today

24

Peak year

2006

Best rank

2,698th

Rank in 2025

3,949th

First recorded

1902

Girls / boys

91 / 1,620

How old the living Etiennes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,711 babies given the name since 1902, about 1,500 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 530 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Etiennes

• Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563)French judge, writer and philosopher
• Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780)French academic
• Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma (1935–2005)President of Togo from 1967 to 2005
• Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition"
• Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812)French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician
• Étienne Gilson (1884–1978)French historian and philosopher
• Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765–1840)Marshal of France
• Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900)Belgian engineer

People named Etienne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Etienne is most common

• CA189
• LA42
• NY32
• FL11
• TX10
• MD7

Relative to how many babies each state records, Etienne is most concentrated in Louisiana (7.9×), California (6.4×), New York (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Etienne peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Ethan
• Matthew
• Daniel

All the names of 2006

Etienne elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Etienne: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Etienne is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.11% of children were given it – 71 of them.

Etienne: rank by region

In 2021, Etienne was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Etienne was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Etienne by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Etienne among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Etienne lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 309 men called Etienne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.