Esco
Esco was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,592 among boys’ names; 309 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esco?
#12,592 among boys’ names, 2025
Esco entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,592 in 2025.
15 babies in 1916, the peak
Esco peaked in 1916, when 15 boys were given it, #1,982 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,592 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,729 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,639 | 3.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,822 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,164 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,118 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,628 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,561 | 2.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,466 | 3.2 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,411 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 6 | #3,225 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,801 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,778 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,254 | 4.9 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,959 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,267 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,052 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,409 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,936 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,521 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,682 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,346 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,449 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 9 | #2,980 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,637 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,876 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,028 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,336 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,299 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,503 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,562 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,192 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,331 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,982 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,217 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,013 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,145 | 15.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,447 | 32.4 |
| 1901 | 7 | #886 | 65.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Esco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esco has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esco, and how old are they?
An estimated 61 Americans named Esco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 148 people named Esco (8 women and girls, 140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 365 babies since 1880, Esco is the most given (85% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Esco
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Esco and names like it
- Compare Esco and EskoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEsco peaked in 1916.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esco since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Esco.
- Names starting with EMost given first.