Given name & surname
Estefan
“one who is crowned in victory”
Estefan is a variant of Esteban. One Spanish interpretation is “one who is crowned in victory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Estefan is a variant of Esteban. One Spanish interpretation is “one who is crowned in victory.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Estefan is a variant of Esteban. An origin associated with Esteban is Spanish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Estefan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 337
- 337 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,080 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,080 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 452 as a first name in 2020; 174 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Estefan’s family of names
Estefan has a related form in Esteban. In Occitan usage, Estefan has a conventional equivalent in the French form Stéphane. In Greek usage, Estefan as a surname is a transliteration of Εστέφαν.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Estefan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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