Meaning not yet researched.
Essence: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 199 in 2025. Its best rank was #457 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #457 in 1998; #1,165 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Essence in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,165 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #457.
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Essence: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 199 girls in 2025. Peak: #457 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 565 (1998).
In 2025, 199 US girls were named Essence, making it the 1,165th most common girls’ name of the year, down 80 places from #1,085 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 228 girls named Essence in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #457, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 565. For comparison, it was #1,465 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Essence in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 8 babies. In all, 10,761 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,531 babies named Essence.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,856 US girls were named Essence; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 256. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,077 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Essence ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #513 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Essynce and Essance 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Essynce (280), Essance (170).
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 Essence 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 6 | #513 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #674 | #1,276 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #701 | #606 |
| Georgia | 14 | #719 | #990 |
| Michigan | 10 | #751 | #1,344 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #812 | #534 |
| Florida | 19 | #836 | #1,392 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #856 | #926 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #953 | #1,481 |
| Indiana | 6 | #953 | — |
| Texas | 26 | #1,073 | #1,650 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,156 | #1,515 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,189 | #771 |
| California | 8 | #2,340 | #2,213 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,165 | 6 | #11,078 |
| 2024 | 228 | #1,085 | 6 | #11,342 |
| 2023 | 250 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2022 | 256 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,444 | 5 | #12,717 |
| 2020 | 186 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2019 | 149 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 2017 | 148 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 2015 | 157 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2014 | 189 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2013 | 201 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2011 | 245 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 2010 | 247 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 2009 | 263 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2008 | 274 | #979 | — | — |
| 2007 | 287 | #944 | — | — |
| 2006 | 320 | #838 | — | — |
| 2005 | 268 | #928 | — | — |
| 2004 | 308 | #814 | — | — |
| 2003 | 333 | #750 | — | — |
| 2002 | 273 | #846 | — | — |
| 2001 | 322 | #741 | — | — |
| 2000 | 447 | #583 | — | — |
| 1999 | 529 | #492 | — | — |
| 1998 | 565 | #457 | — | — |
| 1997 | 440 | #542 | — | — |
| 1996 | 431 | #543 | — | — |
| 1995 | 502 | #490 | — | — |
| 1994 | 262 | #776 | — | — |
| 1993 | 245 | #817 | — | — |
| 1992 | 226 | #877 | — | — |
| 1991 | 193 | #974 | — | — |
| 1990 | 138 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1988 | 102 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1987 | 95 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1983 | 104 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,118 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,247 | — | — |
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).