Epsie

Last seen for girls in 1940 at #4,349

Peak · girls
1888 · 12 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
251
since 1881

Epsie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Epsie has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201881peak #753, 1888girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1940#4,3495
1939#3,7826
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1933#3,7536
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1928#3,7437
1927#3,8757
1926#4,3066
1925#3,6648
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1922#4,0117
1921#2,94111
1920#3,3409
1919#2,64012
1918#3,02410
1917
1916#3,5527
1915#3,4347
1914#1,74015
1913#2,1649
1912#2,1448
1911
1910#2,3985
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1908#2,1015
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1905#1,4208
1904#1,6596
1903#1,5926
1902#1,7935
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1899#1,5965
1898#1,2638
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1896#1,4166
1895#1,5925
1894#1,4855
1893#1,1757
1892#1,4505
1891#1,2136
1890#1,0997
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1888#75312
1887
1886#1,1085
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1881#8305
1880
First appearance
1881

The first year at least five girls were named Epsie! It came in at #830, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1881–1887, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Epsie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1940
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1881
  • Peaked 1888 at #753 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1881–1888
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,885
  • Highest: 1 in 14,885 girls born in 1888 were named Epsie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 228,706 girls born in 1940 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 29.1% of all girls named Epsie (73) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s22#753 (1888)#897
1890s54#1,099 (1890)#1,365
1900s30#1,420 (1905)#1,713
1910s73#1,740 (1914)#2,637
1920s55#2,941 (1921)#3,697
1930s12#3,753 (1933)#3,768
1940s5#4,349 (1940)#4,349

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Epsie in 1881

girls
#830
5 births · 1 in 18,391 girls

Top girls' names in 1881

  1. #1Mary6,919
  2. #2Anna2,698
  3. #3Emma2,034
  4. #4Elizabeth1,852
  5. #5Margaret1,658
  6. #6Minnie1,653
  7. #7Ida1,439
  8. #8Annie1,326
  9. #9Bertha1,324
  10. #10Alice1,308
  11. #830Epsie5
More about 1881

girls

91,953 girls got a published name in 1881; 1 in 18,391 of them was named Epsie, which outranked 11.5% of the 938 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Epsie
  1. #740Zena6
  2. #740Zenobia6
  3. #740Zilpha6
  4. #830Epsie5
  5. #830Aggie5
  6. #830Alba5
  7. #830Aletha5

Tied with 108 names at #830; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1880
Risers
  1. 431Isa#836#405
  2. 389Opal#836#447
  3. 345Natalie#836#491
  4. 304Arvilla#738#434
  5. 304Lauretta#738#434
Fallers
  1. 381Avis#449#830
  2. 365Clementine#375#740
  3. 364Eleanore#466#830
  4. 364Lonnie#466#830
  5. 319Luvenia#421#740

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1881