Esme
#298 for girls in 2025, 1,032 births · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,032 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,920since 1913
Esme over time
Rank among girls' names. Esme has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #298 | 1,032 | — | |
| 2024 | #343 | 908 | — | |
| 2023 | #325 | 950 | — | |
| 2022 | #304 | 1,053 | — | |
| 2021 | #376 | 828 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #395 | 788 | — | |
| 2019 | #426 | 745 | — | |
| 2018 | #547 | 565 | — | |
| 2017 | #585 | 513 | — | |
| 2016 | #682 | 431 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #680 | 419 | — | |
| 2014 | #812 | 342 | — | |
| 2013 | #926 | 274 | — | |
| 2012 | #975 | 260 | — | |
| 2011 | #975 | 263 | — | |
| 2010 | #925 | 280 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,063 | 240 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,508 | 154 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,940 | 106 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,918 | 105 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,243 | 76 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,379 | 67 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
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| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
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| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Esme! It came in at #3,187, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Esme
- 45 spots since 2024 (#343 → #298)
- 97 spots since 2020 (#395 → #298)
- 382 spots since 2015 (#680 → #298)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 2010 (#1,063 → #925)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2011 (#925 → #975)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2025 at #298 (1,032 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,557 girls born in 2025 were named Esme (0.06%)
- 50.9% of all girls named Esme (5,559) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,187 (1913) | #3,187 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,250 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,673 (1953) | #5,673 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,567 (1961) | #6,567 |
| 1970s | 17 | #7,984 (1975) | #8,155 |
| 1980s | 75 | #4,532 (1981) | #8,838 |
| 1990s | 189 | #2,935 (1999) | #6,277 |
| 2000s | 968 | #1,063 (2009) | #2,280 |
| 2010s | 4,092 | #426 (2019) | #753 |
| 2020s | 5,559 | #298 (2025) | #340 |
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.
Esme in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 4,111 of them was named Esme, which outranked 96.4% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 379,548 of them was named Esme, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,022 names at #12,185; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.