Essence
#1,163 for girls in 2025, 199 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 565 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,744since 1973
Essence over time
Rank among girls' names. Essence 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 | #1,163 | 199 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,085 | 228 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #1,012 | 250 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,015 | 256 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,441 | 149 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,227 | 186 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,474 | 149 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,425 | 155 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,495 | 148 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,614 | 136 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,464 | 157 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,270 | 189 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,192 | 201 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,096 | 225 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,019 | 245 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,015 | 247 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,006 | 263 | — | |
| 2008 | #977 | 274 | — | |
| 2007 | #944 | 287 | — | |
| 2006 | #838 | 320 | — | |
| 2005 | #928 | 268 | — | |
| 2004 | #813 | 308 | — | |
| 2003 | #749 | 333 | — | |
| 2002 | #846 | 273 | — | |
| 2001 | #741 | 322 | — | |
| 2000 | #583 | 447 | — | |
| 1999 | #491 | 529 | — | |
| 1998 | #456 | 565 | — | |
| 1997 | #542 | 440 | — | |
| 1996 | #542 | 431 | — | |
| 1995 | #490 | 502 | — | |
| 1994 | #775 | 262 | — | |
| 1993 | #817 | 245 | — | |
| 1992 | #876 | 226 | — | |
| 1991 | #973 | 193 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,219 | 138 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,383 | 109 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,384 | 102 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,404 | 95 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,405 | 91 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,710 | 67 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,446 | 80 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,220 | 104 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,608 | 72 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,977 | 52 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Essence! It came in at #6,080, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Essence
- 78 spots since 2024 (#1,085 → #1,163)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#1,227 → #1,163)
- 301 spots since 2015 (#1,464 → #1,163)
- Biggest jump: 285 spots in 1995 (#775 → #490)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 2001 (#583 → #741)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1998 at #456 (565 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1991–2008
- Highest: 1 in 3,127 girls born in 1998 were named Essence (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,077 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Essence (3,531) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 182 | #1,977 (1979) | #3,397 |
| 1980s | 816 | #1,220 (1983) | #1,580 |
| 1990s | 3,531 | #456 (1998) | #718 |
| 2000s | 3,095 | #583 (2000) | #843 |
| 2010s | 1,852 | #1,015 (2010) | #1,306 |
| 2020s | 1,268 | #1,012 (2023) | #1,157 |
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.
Essence in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,012 of them was named Essence, which outranked 91.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,432Susanna150
- #1,432Theresa150
- #1,432Zion150
- #1,441Essence149
- #1,441Alissa149
- #1,441Annelise149
- #1,441Elara149
- #1,450Ally148
- #1,450Arwen148
- #1,450Ashtyn148
Tied with 8 names at #1,441; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 349,896 of them was named Essence, which outranked 13.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,950 names at #12,146; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.