Esker
Esker was last recorded in 1962, when 6 babies were given it; 313 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esker by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esker?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,759, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1920, the peak
Esker peaked in 1920, when 18 boys were given it, #1,908 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #3,759 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,252 | 2.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,128 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,041 | 3.8 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,987 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,901 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,876 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,443 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,422 | 3.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,338 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 8 | #2,779 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,662 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,951 | 6.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,534 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,268 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,833 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,080 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,396 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,497 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,522 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,497 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,338 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,844 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,982 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,216 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,000 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,877 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,251 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,870 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,688 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,908 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,733 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,870 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,332 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,307 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,218 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,326 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,965 | 9.8 |
| 1908 | 9 | #971 | 58.3 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,211 | 39.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Esker a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esker has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esker: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esker, and how old are they?
An estimated 50 Americans named Esker 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 102 people named Esker (9 women and girls, 93 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 71 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Esker
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 Esker and names like it
- Compare Esker and LenordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEsker peaked in 1920.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Esker.
- Names starting with EMost given first.