Meaning not yet researched.
Esme: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,032 in 2025. Its best rank was #298 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Esme in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#298 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Esme: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,032 girls in 2025. Peak: #298 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,053 (2022).
In 2025, 1,032 US girls were named Esme, making it the 298th most common girls’ name of the year, up 45 places from #343 in 2024. That is 124 more than the 908 girls named Esme in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #298, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,053, in 2022. For comparison, it was #681 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esme in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 10,930 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,564 babies named Esme.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,813 US girls were named Esme; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,053. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,557 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esme ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #96 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Esmee (860 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ezme are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ezme (213).
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 Esme 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 9 | #96 | — |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #125 | — |
| Maine | 7 | #159 | — |
| South Dakota | 7 | #169 | — |
| Massachusetts | 33 | #169 | #531 |
| Oregon | 21 | #169 | #265 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #172 | #232 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #181 | — |
| Minnesota | 29 | #187 | #239 |
| New York | 86 | #191 | #525 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #193 | — |
| Washington | 35 | #208 | #420 |
| Colorado | 27 | #236 | #493 |
| Arizona | 29 | #243 | #730 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #247 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #252 | #333 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #258 | #334 |
| Illinois | 41 | #259 | #514 |
| Michigan | 35 | #260 | #1,165 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #280 | — |
| California | 112 | #290 | #621 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #296 | #610 |
| Utah | 15 | #297 | — |
| New Jersey | 28 | #299 | #879 |
| Ohio | 37 | #299 | #756 |
| Iowa | 11 | #306 | — |
| Indiana | 22 | #323 | #993 |
| Nevada | 8 | #349 | — |
| Virginia | 23 | #349 | #990 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #353 | — |
| Connecticut | 8 | #358 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #369 | #392 |
| Florida | 50 | #370 | #915 |
| Maryland | 13 | #405 | — |
| Texas | 81 | #417 | #1,329 |
| Kansas | 8 | #418 | #554 |
| Georgia | 27 | #419 | #921 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #423 | — |
| Tennessee | 18 | #439 | #872 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #442 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #450 | #873 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #564 | #786 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #595 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,032 | #298 | — | — |
| 2024 | 908 | #343 | — | — |
| 2023 | 950 | #325 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,053 | #304 | — | — |
| 2021 | 828 | #376 | 5 | #12,716 |
| 2020 | 788 | #395 | — | — |
| 2019 | 745 | #426 | — | — |
| 2018 | 565 | #548 | — | — |
| 2017 | 513 | #585 | — | — |
| 2016 | 431 | #682 | 5 | #12,805 |
| 2015 | 419 | #681 | — | — |
| 2014 | 342 | #812 | — | — |
| 2013 | 274 | #926 | — | — |
| 2012 | 260 | #975 | — | — |
| 2011 | 263 | #977 | — | — |
| 2010 | 280 | #927 | — | — |
| 2009 | 240 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,953 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,128 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,054 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,844 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,603 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,554 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,006 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,638 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,227 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,295 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,176 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,911 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,379 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,690 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,863 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,458 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,302 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,713 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,856 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,343 | — | — |
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).