Meaning not yet researched.
Esta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #373 in 1891.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #373 in 1891; #10,352 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,352 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1891, at #373.
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Esta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #373 in 1891 · most girls in one year: 117 (1920).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Esta, making it the 10,352nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,072 places from #11,424 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Esta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #373, reached in 1891. The most girls given the name in a single year was 117, in 1920. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,481 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esta in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 4,466 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 883 babies named Esta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 51 US girls were named Esta; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Estha 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 Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Estha (76).
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 Esta 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 | 9 | #10,352 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,424 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,115 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,418 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,973 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,194 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,280 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,301 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,623 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,860 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,019 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,163 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,861 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,273 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,840 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,392 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,952 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,822 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,789 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,769 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,988 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,448 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,432 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,877 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,552 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,536 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,109 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,818 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,628 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,840 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,168 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,278 | — | — |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,282 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,156 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1943 | 53 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1940 | 63 | #909 | — | — |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1938 | 47 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1936 | 64 | #849 | — | — |
| 1935 | 46 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1934 | 70 | #805 | — | — |
| 1933 | 56 | #907 | — | — |
| 1932 | 62 | #891 | — | — |
| 1931 | 61 | #878 | — | — |
| 1930 | 65 | #898 | — | — |
| 1929 | 70 | #852 | — | — |
| 1928 | 69 | #883 | — | — |
| 1927 | 74 | #858 | — | — |
| 1926 | 75 | #854 | 6 | #3,856 |
| 1925 | 95 | #761 | — | — |
| 1924 | 87 | #799 | 5 | #4,562 |
| 1923 | 98 | #736 | — | — |
| 1922 | 85 | #792 | — | — |
| 1921 | 102 | #728 | — | — |
| 1920 | 117 | #673 | — | — |
| 1919 | 89 | #748 | 5 | #4,372 |
| 1918 | 105 | #703 | — | — |
| 1917 | 113 | #639 | — | — |
| 1916 | 104 | #671 | 6 | #3,620 |
| 1915 | 96 | #671 | — | — |
| 1914 | 90 | #599 | — | — |
| 1913 | 83 | #563 | — | — |
| 1912 | 70 | #578 | — | — |
| 1911 | 51 | #596 | — | — |
| 1910 | 49 | #595 | — | — |
| 1909 | 48 | #555 | — | — |
| 1908 | 50 | #514 | — | — |
| 1907 | 47 | #525 | — | — |
| 1906 | 51 | #479 | — | — |
| 1905 | 42 | #532 | — | — |
| 1904 | 44 | #496 | — | — |
| 1903 | 36 | #542 | — | — |
| 1902 | 56 | #412 | — | — |
| 1901 | 33 | #535 | — | — |
| 1900 | 56 | #450 | — | — |
| 1899 | 44 | #439 | — | — |
| 1898 | 38 | #504 | — | — |
| 1897 | 41 | #459 | — | — |
| 1896 | 37 | #479 | — | — |
| 1895 | 44 | #429 | — | — |
| 1894 | 47 | #407 | — | — |
| 1893 | 32 | #478 | — | — |
| 1892 | 28 | #513 | — | — |
| 1891 | 45 | #373 | — | — |
| 1890 | 22 | #564 | — | — |
| 1889 | 36 | #406 | — | — |
| 1888 | 24 | #517 | — | — |
| 1887 | 24 | #460 | — | — |
| 1886 | 23 | #456 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #585 | — | — |
| 1884 | 14 | #566 | — | — |
| 1883 | 10 | #624 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #610 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #645 | 5 | #915 |
| 1880 | 9 | #599 | — | — |
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).