Esmae
Esmae was given to 149 girls in 2025, #1,445 among girls’ names; 1,527 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Esmae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esmae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esmae?
#1,445 among girls’ names, 2025
Esmae rose from #2,899 in 2015 to #1,445 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.6 to 92.7 per million.
170 babies in 2022, the peak
Esmae peaked in 2022, when 170 girls were given it, #1,369 among girls’ names. The 149 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,445 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 98 | #2,003 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,433 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 170 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,572 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,689 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 140 | #1,543 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,617 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,490 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,327 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,899 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,939 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,090 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,749 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,795 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,672 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,149 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,972 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Esmae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esmae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esmae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esmae, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,527 Americans ever recorded as Esmae. The median Esmae alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 102 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,420 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,820 babies since 1880, Esmae is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 1,303 babies (11%), again the second most given.
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 Esmae
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 Esmae and names like it
- Compare Esmae and EsmeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEsmae peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esmae since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Esmae.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Esmae alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.