Essie

Where Essie comes from

Essie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #168 among girls — 78 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #126
    381 babies named Essie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1955
    Essie Hollis born
    American basketball player
  4. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #798.
  5. 1970
    Essie Davis born
    Australian actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Essie Davis · Australian actress, born 1970
  • Essie Hollis · American basketball player, born 1955
  • Essie Mae Washington-Williams · American school teacher and writer, 1925–2013
  • Essie Shevill · Australian cricketer, 1908–1989
  • Essie Washington · American middle-distance runner, born 1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.