Meaning not yet researched.
Esperanza: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 188 in 2025. Its best rank was #446 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #446 in 1929; #1,209 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esperanza in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,209 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #446.
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Esperanza: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 188 girls in 2025. Peak: #446 in 1929 · most girls in one year: 499 (2000).
In 2025, 188 US girls were named Esperanza, making it the 1,209th most common girls’ name of the year, down 196 places from #1,013 in 2024. That is 64 fewer than the 252 girls named Esperanza in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #446, reached in 1929. The most girls given the name in a single year was 499, in 2000. For comparison, it was #922 in 2015 and #659 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esperanza in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 6 babies. In all, 20,884 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,819 babies named Esperanza.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,532 US girls were named Esperanza; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 277. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,549 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esperanza ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #329 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hope (97,793 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Esperansa, Esparanza and Ezperanza 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 Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Esperansa (503), Esparanza (72), Ezperanza (24).
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 Esperanza 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #329 | #139 |
| Arizona | 15 | #453 | #294 |
| Colorado | 8 | #659 | #348 |
| California | 43 | #722 | #614 |
| Texas | 29 | #989 | #620 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,594 | #1,075 |
| New York | 6 | #1,894 | #1,520 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 188 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2024 | 252 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2023 | 258 | #992 | — | — |
| 2022 | 262 | #998 | — | — |
| 2021 | 224 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 2020 | 270 | #949 | — | — |
| 2019 | 272 | #966 | — | — |
| 2018 | 265 | #991 | — | — |
| 2017 | 277 | #955 | — | — |
| 2016 | 264 | #999 | — | — |
| 2015 | 298 | #922 | — | — |
| 2014 | 258 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2013 | 249 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 2012 | 240 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2011 | 296 | #884 | — | — |
| 2010 | 271 | #949 | — | — |
| 2009 | 278 | #962 | — | — |
| 2008 | 277 | #968 | — | — |
| 2007 | 351 | #819 | — | — |
| 2006 | 422 | #676 | — | — |
| 2005 | 363 | #742 | — | — |
| 2004 | 350 | #749 | — | — |
| 2003 | 396 | #668 | — | — |
| 2002 | 423 | #606 | 5 | #11,235 |
| 2001 | 455 | #568 | — | — |
| 2000 | 499 | #528 | — | — |
| 1999 | 402 | #605 | — | — |
| 1998 | 316 | #700 | — | — |
| 1997 | 316 | #684 | — | — |
| 1996 | 289 | #725 | — | — |
| 1995 | 213 | #890 | — | — |
| 1994 | 182 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1993 | 176 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1991 | 163 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1990 | 158 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1989 | 132 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1987 | 132 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1986 | 117 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1985 | 110 | #1,244 | 5 | #6,871 |
| 1984 | 122 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1983 | 125 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1982 | 150 | #985 | — | — |
| 1981 | 164 | #914 | 5 | #6,584 |
| 1980 | 138 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1979 | 159 | #924 | — | — |
| 1978 | 148 | #949 | — | — |
| 1977 | 129 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1976 | 129 | #989 | — | — |
| 1975 | 134 | #944 | — | — |
| 1974 | 148 | #877 | — | — |
| 1973 | 125 | #959 | — | — |
| 1972 | 132 | #931 | — | — |
| 1971 | 109 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1970 | 104 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1969 | 121 | #976 | — | — |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1967 | 118 | #941 | — | — |
| 1966 | 103 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1965 | 120 | #925 | — | — |
| 1964 | 146 | #862 | — | — |
| 1963 | 116 | #990 | — | — |
| 1962 | 140 | #893 | — | — |
| 1961 | 133 | #931 | — | — |
| 1960 | 136 | #904 | — | — |
| 1959 | 143 | #854 | — | — |
| 1958 | 121 | #938 | — | — |
| 1957 | 152 | #824 | — | — |
| 1956 | 103 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1955 | 144 | #806 | — | — |
| 1954 | 160 | #730 | — | — |
| 1953 | 167 | #710 | — | — |
| 1952 | 166 | #692 | — | — |
| 1951 | 177 | #651 | — | — |
| 1950 | 167 | #659 | — | — |
| 1949 | 153 | #676 | — | — |
| 1948 | 199 | #592 | — | — |
| 1947 | 184 | #619 | — | — |
| 1946 | 179 | #595 | — | — |
| 1945 | 179 | #548 | — | — |
| 1944 | 164 | #571 | — | — |
| 1943 | 145 | #631 | — | — |
| 1942 | 137 | #639 | — | — |
| 1941 | 115 | #661 | — | — |
| 1940 | 147 | #576 | — | — |
| 1939 | 115 | #635 | — | — |
| 1938 | 124 | #613 | — | — |
| 1937 | 111 | #644 | — | — |
| 1936 | 139 | #552 | — | — |
| 1935 | 124 | #580 | — | — |
| 1934 | 153 | #524 | — | — |
| 1933 | 138 | #542 | — | — |
| 1932 | 143 | #546 | — | — |
| 1931 | 169 | #495 | 5 | #3,954 |
| 1930 | 169 | #518 | — | — |
| 1929 | 219 | #446 | — | — |
| 1928 | 228 | #453 | 5 | #4,349 |
| 1927 | 190 | #509 | — | — |
| 1926 | 202 | #491 | 5 | #4,419 |
| 1925 | 184 | #524 | — | — |
| 1924 | 174 | #555 | — | — |
| 1923 | 156 | #577 | 5 | #4,436 |
| 1922 | 112 | #693 | — | — |
| 1921 | 115 | #691 | — | — |
| 1920 | 115 | #677 | — | — |
| 1919 | 96 | #712 | — | — |
| 1918 | 75 | #826 | — | — |
| 1917 | 62 | #881 | — | — |
| 1916 | 50 | #965 | — | — |
| 1915 | 54 | #896 | — | — |
| 1914 | 40 | #934 | — | — |
| 1913 | 30 | #987 | — | — |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,664 | — | — |
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).