Meaning not yet researched.
Esmee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,312 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,312 in 2019; #3,305 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esmee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,305 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,312.
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Esmee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,312 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 78 (2019).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Esmee, making it the 3,305th most common girls’ name of the year, up 357 places from #3,662 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 42 girls named Esmee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,312, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,945 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esmee in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 5 babies. In all, 860 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 468 babies named Esmee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 533 US girls were named Esmee; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Esme (10,930 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Esmie, Esmi and Esmy 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Esmie (149), Esmi (146), Esmy (27), Esmia (12), Ezmie (12), Ezmee (7), Esmea (5), Esmei (5).
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 Esmee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,134 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,951 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,966 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,596 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,978 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,090 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,393 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,179 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,972 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,711 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,368 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,818 | — | — |
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).