Estes
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to boys 90.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1888 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 545since 1887
Estes over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #8,154 | 9 | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
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| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,514 | 10 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,266 | 11 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,074 | 15 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,727 | 21 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,224 | 14 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,630 | 11 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,747 | 20 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,882 | 17 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,446 | 25 | |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | #1,755 | 18 |
| 1916 | — | #1,240 | 29 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,505 | 21 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,101 | 10 | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | #1,497 | 13 |
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
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| 1904 | — | #1,064 | 6 | |
| 1903 | — | #1,009 | 6 | |
| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
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| 1893 | — | #836 | 7 | |
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| 1888 | — | #815 | 7 | |
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1887
The first year at least five boys were named Estes! It came in at #921, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1892, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Estes
Momentum · boys
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 106 spots in 1888 (#921 → #815)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
- Debuted 1887
- Peaked 1888 at #815 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1887–1888
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,045
- Highest: 1 in 16,045 boys born in 1893 were named Estes (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #815 in 1888, was only 1 in 17,265 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
- 27.0% of all boys named Estes (147) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | #815 (1888) | #868 |
| 1890s | 7 | #836 (1893) | #836 |
| 1900s | 28 | #1,009 (1903) | #1,172 |
| 1910s | 147 | #1,240 (1916) | #1,650 |
| 1920s | 123 | #1,727 (1924) | #2,335 |
| 1930s | 81 | #1,905 (1933) | #2,685 |
| 1940s | 57 | #2,405 (1943) | #3,187 |
| 1950s | 39 | #2,497 (1956) | #3,050 |
| 1960s | 18 | #3,077 (1960) | #3,725 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 9 | #8,154 (2018) | #8,154 |
| 2020s | 24 | #8,739 (2020) | #11,024 |
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.
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