Meaning not yet researched.
Essie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #126 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #126 in 1896; #3,306 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Essie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,306 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #126.
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Essie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #126 in 1896 · most girls in one year: 1,032 (1921).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Essie, making it the 3,306th most common girls’ name of the year, down 577 places from #2,729 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 63 girls named Essie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #126, reached in 1896. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,032, in 1921. For comparison, it was #4,330 in 2015 and #459 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Essie in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 78 babies. In all, 40,894 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 9,227 babies named Essie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 461 US girls were named Essie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Essiah, Ezzie and Essey 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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Essiah (171), Ezzie (167), Essey (37), Esi (28), Essi (18), Issie (11), Essye (5), Ese (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 Essie in the open dataset we use.
Essie is listed as a nickname for Esther.
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 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,636 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,875 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,010 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,343 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,406 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,579 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,902 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,120 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,750 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,181 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,448 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,901 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,346 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,756 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,943 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,797 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,982 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,356 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,680 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,800 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,055 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,287 | 5 | #8,289 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,904 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,599 | 5 | #6,569 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,916 | 5 | #6,668 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,095 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,838 | 7 | #3,975 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,514 | 5 | #4,144 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,389 | 6 | #3,652 |
| 1965 | 84 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1964 | 93 | #1,142 | 9 | #2,919 |
| 1963 | 124 | #951 | — | — |
| 1962 | 109 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1960 | 139 | #887 | — | — |
| 1959 | 160 | #808 | 11 | #2,576 |
| 1958 | 156 | #806 | 9 | #2,896 |
| 1957 | 160 | #798 | 5 | #4,167 |
| 1956 | 212 | #659 | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1955 | 225 | #620 | 12 | #2,339 |
| 1954 | 232 | #596 | 16 | #1,986 |
| 1953 | 263 | #530 | 9 | #2,775 |
| 1952 | 283 | #500 | 17 | #1,885 |
| 1951 | 270 | #501 | 12 | #2,286 |
| 1950 | 313 | #459 | 13 | #2,137 |
| 1949 | 326 | #439 | 15 | #1,970 |
| 1948 | 324 | #440 | 18 | #1,776 |
| 1947 | 327 | #451 | 10 | #2,547 |
| 1946 | 341 | #414 | 16 | #1,840 |
| 1945 | 389 | #350 | 14 | #1,877 |
| 1944 | 414 | #337 | 19 | #1,591 |
| 1943 | 350 | #391 | 12 | #2,213 |
| 1942 | 415 | #342 | 14 | #1,977 |
| 1941 | 390 | #333 | 25 | #1,342 |
| 1940 | 420 | #309 | 16 | #1,754 |
| 1939 | 460 | #290 | 16 | #1,742 |
| 1938 | 451 | #294 | 17 | #1,709 |
| 1937 | 472 | #284 | 14 | #1,935 |
| 1936 | 494 | #274 | 17 | #1,666 |
| 1935 | 498 | #272 | 23 | #1,433 |
| 1934 | 538 | #267 | 18 | #1,683 |
| 1933 | 568 | #257 | 22 | #1,469 |
| 1932 | 678 | #234 | 11 | #2,372 |
| 1931 | 579 | #251 | 24 | #1,436 |
| 1930 | 617 | #250 | 33 | #1,242 |
| 1929 | 667 | #239 | 26 | #1,422 |
| 1928 | 806 | #221 | 27 | #1,427 |
| 1927 | 783 | #227 | 29 | #1,384 |
| 1926 | 883 | #211 | 28 | #1,387 |
| 1925 | 925 | #211 | 20 | #1,753 |
| 1924 | 936 | #210 | 23 | #1,644 |
| 1923 | 917 | #212 | 16 | #2,053 |
| 1922 | 1,022 | #200 | 32 | #1,290 |
| 1921 | 1,032 | #199 | 22 | #1,666 |
| 1920 | 996 | #197 | 37 | #1,187 |
| 1919 | 1,023 | #189 | 40 | #1,085 |
| 1918 | 1,019 | #194 | 29 | #1,322 |
| 1917 | 945 | #194 | 22 | #1,547 |
| 1916 | 904 | #197 | 26 | #1,349 |
| 1915 | 869 | #191 | 27 | #1,277 |
| 1914 | 737 | #181 | 26 | #1,137 |
| 1913 | 662 | #175 | 22 | #1,085 |
| 1912 | 695 | #155 | 23 | #948 |
| 1911 | 525 | #156 | 14 | #905 |
| 1910 | 620 | #134 | 11 | #1,002 |
| 1909 | 508 | #139 | 7 | #1,190 |
| 1908 | 451 | #148 | 14 | #722 |
| 1907 | 486 | #137 | 12 | #785 |
| 1906 | 409 | #145 | 7 | #1,046 |
| 1905 | 476 | #132 | 9 | #861 |
| 1904 | 457 | #129 | 9 | #830 |
| 1903 | 396 | #140 | 7 | #942 |
| 1902 | 424 | #133 | 9 | #813 |
| 1901 | 368 | #136 | — | — |
| 1900 | 492 | #129 | 8 | #989 |
| 1899 | 342 | #136 | 12 | #591 |
| 1898 | 336 | #150 | 9 | #769 |
| 1897 | 329 | #145 | 14 | #561 |
| 1896 | 381 | #126 | 7 | #925 |
| 1895 | 335 | #136 | 9 | #755 |
| 1894 | 311 | #137 | 18 | #471 |
| 1893 | 258 | #153 | — | — |
| 1892 | 294 | #141 | — | — |
| 1891 | 217 | #157 | 10 | #614 |
| 1890 | 256 | #138 | 5 | #1,054 |
| 1889 | 265 | #136 | 11 | #598 |
| 1888 | 230 | #143 | 5 | #1,080 |
| 1887 | 185 | #140 | — | — |
| 1886 | 163 | #149 | — | — |
| 1885 | 153 | #149 | 7 | #790 |
| 1884 | 148 | #142 | — | — |
| 1883 | 139 | #140 | — | — |
| 1882 | 113 | #153 | 7 | #780 |
| 1881 | 80 | #168 | 5 | #914 |
| 1880 | 78 | #168 | — | — |
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).