Essex
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #11,169 · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1894 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 435since 1882
Essex over time
Rank among boys' names. Essex has never cracked the top 700 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 | — | #4,707 | 21 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,443 | 17 | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | #12,136 | 5 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #12,287 | 5 | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | #12,491 | 5 | |
| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | — | #8,339 | 7 | |
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
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| 1996 | — | — | ||
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| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,844 | 8 | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,452 | 11 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
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| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #1,101 | 5 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #787 | 8 | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | #974 | 5 | |
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Essex! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1893, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Essex
- 736 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #4,707)
- 5,937 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #4,707)
- Biggest jump: 51 spots in 1883 (#943 → #892)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1894 at #787 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1895, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1882–1883
- Highest: 1 in 14,471 boys born in 1894 were named Essex (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.7% of all boys named Essex (77) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | #892 (1883) | #936 |
| 1890s | 18 | #787 (1894) | #950 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,137 (1902) | #1,137 |
| 1910s | 34 | #2,665 (1919) | #3,293 |
| 1920s | 57 | #2,452 (1929) | #3,543 |
| 1930s | 35 | #2,609 (1939) | #3,063 |
| 1940s | 49 | #2,563 (1943) | #3,245 |
| 1950s | 40 | #2,844 (1951) | #3,291 |
| 1960s | 13 | #3,097 (1961) | #3,532 |
| 1970s | 34 | #3,659 (1975) | #4,501 |
| 1980s | 8 | #4,853 (1986) | #4,853 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 22 | #8,339 (2001) | #11,185 |
| 2010s | 28 | #10,644 (2015) | #11,317 |
| 2020s | 77 | #4,707 (2025) | #5,947 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Essex in 1883
Top boys' names in 1883
More about 1883
boys
104,625 boys got a published name in 1883; 1 in 20,925 of them was named Essex, which outranked 13.4% of the 1,030 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 138 names at #892; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.