Esley
Esley was last recorded in 2025, when 6 babies were given it; 326 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esley?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,642, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1923, the peak
Esley peaked in 1923, when 14 boys were given it, #2,257 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,733 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,003 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,960 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,108 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,015 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,968 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,332 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,433 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,083 | 5 | #12,642 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,176 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,628 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,568 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,474 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,252 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 7 | #3,151 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,096 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,284 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,107 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,585 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 8 | #2,802 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,733 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,255 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,647 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,718 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,813 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 8 | #2,937 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,178 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 14 | #2,195 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,387 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,414 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 8 | #3,226 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,094 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 14 | #2,257 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 13 | #2,381 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 13 | #2,416 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 12 | #2,504 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 10 | #2,734 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 10 | #2,751 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 11 | #2,472 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 7 | #3,182 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 7 | #2,112 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 5 | #1,525 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 5 | #1,116 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 6 | #994 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Esley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 326 Americans recorded as Esley, 18% are girls and 82% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Esley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esley, and how old are they?
An estimated 111 Americans named Esley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 236 people named Esley (73 women and girls, 163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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).
More about Esley and names like it
- The most given names of the 1920sEsley peaked in 1923.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Esley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Esley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.