Esperanza
#1,207 for girls in 2025, 188 births · Last seen for boys in 2002 at #10,667
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1929 · 219 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,849since 1903
Esperanza over time
Rank among girls' names. Esperanza has never cracked the top 400 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 | #1,207 | 188 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,013 | 252 | — | |
| 2023 | #989 | 258 | — | |
| 2022 | #997 | 262 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,103 | 224 | — | |
| 2020 | #947 | 270 | — | |
| 2019 | #965 | 272 | — | |
| 2018 | #990 | 265 | — | |
| 2017 | #952 | 277 | — | |
| 2016 | #999 | 264 | — | |
| 2015 | #921 | 298 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,011 | 258 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,003 | 249 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,050 | 240 | — | |
| 2011 | #884 | 296 | — | |
| 2010 | #948 | 271 | — | |
| 2009 | #961 | 278 | — | |
| 2008 | #968 | 277 | — | |
| 2007 | #819 | 351 | — | |
| 2006 | #676 | 422 | — | |
| 2005 | #741 | 363 | — | |
| 2004 | #749 | 350 | — | |
| 2003 | #668 | 396 | — | |
| 2002 | #605 | 423 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #567 | 455 | — | |
| 2000 | #528 | 499 | — | |
| 1999 | #605 | 402 | — | |
| 1998 | #700 | 316 | — | |
| 1997 | #682 | 316 | — | |
| 1996 | #725 | 289 | — | |
| 1995 | #889 | 213 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,018 | 182 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,044 | 176 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,207 | 144 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,103 | 163 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,104 | 158 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,220 | 132 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,292 | 112 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,128 | 132 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,199 | 117 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,239 | 110 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #1,126 | 122 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,096 | 125 | — | |
| 1982 | #985 | 150 | — | |
| 1981 | #912 | 164 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #1,034 | 138 | — | |
| 1979 | #923 | 159 | — | |
| 1978 | #949 | 148 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,031 | 129 | — | |
| 1976 | #988 | 129 | — | |
| 1975 | #943 | 134 | — | |
| 1974 | #876 | 148 | — | |
| 1973 | #958 | 125 | — | |
| 1972 | #928 | 132 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,098 | 109 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,126 | 104 | — | |
| 1969 | #975 | 121 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,056 | 99 | — | |
| 1967 | #941 | 118 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,017 | 103 | — | |
| 1965 | #922 | 120 | — | |
| 1964 | #861 | 146 | — | |
| 1963 | #990 | 116 | — | |
| 1962 | #893 | 140 | — | |
| 1961 | #929 | 133 | — | |
| 1960 | #904 | 136 | — | |
| 1959 | #854 | 143 | — | |
| 1958 | #937 | 121 | — | |
| 1957 | #821 | 152 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,007 | 103 | — | |
| 1955 | #804 | 144 | — | |
| 1954 | #730 | 160 | — | |
| 1953 | #708 | 167 | — | |
| 1952 | #691 | 166 | — | |
| 1951 | #651 | 177 | — | |
| 1950 | #659 | 167 | — | |
| 1949 | #675 | 153 | — | |
| 1948 | #590 | 199 | — | |
| 1947 | #617 | 184 | — | |
| 1946 | #595 | 179 | — | |
| 1945 | #547 | 179 | — | |
| 1944 | #571 | 164 | — | |
| 1943 | #631 | 145 | — | |
| 1942 | #639 | 137 | — | |
| 1941 | #661 | 115 | — | |
| 1940 | #575 | 147 | — | |
| 1939 | #633 | 115 | — | |
| 1938 | #613 | 124 | — | |
| 1937 | #643 | 111 | — | |
| 1936 | #552 | 139 | — | |
| 1935 | #578 | 124 | — | |
| 1934 | #523 | 153 | — | |
| 1933 | #541 | 138 | — | |
| 1932 | #545 | 143 | — | |
| 1931 | #495 | 169 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #518 | 169 | — | |
| 1929 | #446 | 219 | — | |
| 1928 | #453 | 228 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | #509 | 190 | — | |
| 1926 | #491 | 202 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #523 | 184 | — | |
| 1924 | #553 | 174 | — | |
| 1923 | #574 | 156 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #692 | 112 | — | |
| 1921 | #690 | 115 | — | |
| 1920 | #676 | 115 | — | |
| 1919 | #712 | 96 | — | |
| 1918 | #825 | 75 | — | |
| 1917 | #879 | 62 | — | |
| 1916 | #964 | 50 | — | |
| 1915 | #892 | 54 | — | |
| 1914 | #932 | 40 | — | |
| 1913 | #981 | 30 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,178 | 20 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,241 | 14 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,267 | 13 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,203 | 12 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,384 | 9 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Esperanza! It came in at #1,592, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1904, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Esperanza
- 194 spots since 2024 (#1,013 → #1,207)
- 260 spots since 2020 (#947 → #1,207)
- 286 spots since 2015 (#921 → #1,207)
- Biggest jump: 197 spots in 1913 (#1,178 → #981)
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 1956 (#804 → #1,007)
- Debuted 1903
- Peaked 1929 at #446 (219 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 27 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 88 yrs · run 1913–1955
- Highest: 1 in 3,639 girls born in 2000 were named Esperanza (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,549 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #446 in 1929, was only 1 in 5,098 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.3% of all girls named Esperanza (3,814) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 45 | #1,203 (1908) | #1,598 |
| 1910s | 454 | #712 (1919) | #987 |
| 1920s | 1,695 | #446 (1929) | #561 |
| 1930s | 1,385 | #495 (1931) | #564 |
| 1940s | 1,602 | #547 (1945) | #610 |
| 1950s | 1,500 | #651 (1951) | #786 |
| 1960s | 1,232 | #861 (1964) | #949 |
| 1970s | 1,317 | #876 (1974) | #982 |
| 1980s | 1,302 | #912 (1981) | #1,123 |
| 1990s | 2,359 | #605 (1999) | #908 |
| 2000s | 3,814 | #528 (2000) | #728 |
| 2010s | 2,690 | #884 (2011) | #972 |
| 2020s | 1,454 | #947 (2020) | #1,043 |
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.
Esperanza in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 4,248 of them was named Esperanza, which outranked 96.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 388,303 of them was named Esperanza, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).