Meaning not yet researched.
Esmae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 149 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,369 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,369 in 2022; #1,445 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esmae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,445 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,369.
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Esmae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 149 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,369 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 170 (2022).
In 2025, 149 US girls were named Esmae, making it the 1,445th most common girls’ name of the year, up 558 places from #2,003 in 2024. That is 51 more than the 98 girls named Esmae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,369, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 170. For comparison, it was #2,899 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esmae in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 8 babies. In all, 1,527 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 828 babies named Esmae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,253 US girls were named Esmae; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 170. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,787 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esmae ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #662 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Esma, Ezmae and Esmay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Esma (915), Ezmae (443), Esmay (293), Ezmay (125), Ezma (123), Isma (108), Ismay (52), Ismah (30).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Esmae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #662 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #671 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #750 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #768 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #928 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #983 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,093 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,109 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,444 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,608 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,971 | — |
| California | 10 | #2,001 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,472 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).