Esko
Esko was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,593 among boys’ names; 56 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Esko mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Esko is “a male given name”
Also “a Finnish surname transferred from the given name”
A vernacular form of Old Swedish [Term?]/Swedish Eskil, name of a medieval saint (an archbishop), ultimately from Old Norse Áskell.
/ˈesko/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Esko?
#12,593 among boys’ names, 2025
Esko entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,593 in 2025.
7 babies in 2022, the peak
Esko peaked in 2022, when 7 boys were given it, #10,123 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,593 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,334 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,796 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,123 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,167 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,019 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,175 | 3.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,386 | 4.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,549 | 4.5 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,173 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Esko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esko has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esko, and how old are they?
An estimated 41 Americans named Esko 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.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 365 babies since 1880, Esko is the second most given (15% 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.
More about Esko and names like it
- Compare Esko and EscoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEsko peaked in 2022.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Esko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Esko.
- Names starting with EMost given first.