Estefania
Estefania was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,129 among girls’ names; 7,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,950 Americans named Estefania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estefania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Estefania mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Estefania is “a female given name of rare usage”
From Spanish Estefanía with a stress shift. Alternatively from Portuguese Estefânia, which is stressed as in German, but is nevertheless a less likely origin.
/ɛstəˈfaːni̯a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Estefania?
#2,129 among girls’ names, 2025
Estefania fell from #1,255 in 2015 to #2,129 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.05 per 1,000.
386 babies in 1996, the peak
Estefania peaked in 1996, when 386 girls were given it, #591 among girls’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,129 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,125 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,809 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,901 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,351 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,798 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 140 | #1,549 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,757 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,723 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 195 | #1,255 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,797 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 143 | #1,542 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,695 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,523 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 192 | #1,269 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 197 | #1,268 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,327 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 216 | #1,137 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 269 | #927 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 236 | #1,000 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 277 | #867 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 360 | #697 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 374 | #671 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 232 | #928 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 314 | #718 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 181 | #1,074 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 227 | #889 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 386 | #591 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 125 | #1,321 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 165 | #1,091 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 213 | #905 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 297 | #720 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 259 | #790 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 126 | #1,290 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,979 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,802 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,448 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,867 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,762 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,304 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,951 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,499 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,405 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Estefania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Estefania has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Estefania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estefania, and how old are they?
6,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,043 Americans ever recorded as Estefania. The median Estefania alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 8,613 people named Estefania (8,602 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Estefania born?
The states with the most babies named Estefania are Texas, California and Georgia, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,131 | 2.1× |
| California | 17 | #1,380 | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,609 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,190 | 0.0× |
Where Estefania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Estefania is most over-represented in California: since 1980 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Estefania with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 19,346 babies since 1880, Estefania is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 220 babies (40%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Estefania
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Estefania and names like it
- Compare Estefania and EstefanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEstefania peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estefania since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Estefania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Estefania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Estefania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.