Esmee
Esmee was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,304 among girls’ names; 860 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esmee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Esmee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Esmee is “a female given name from French.”
Anglicized spelling of the French Esmée or Esmé
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Esmee?
#3,304 among girls’ names, 2025
Esmee fell from #2,945 in 2015 to #3,304 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.1 to 29.2 per million.
78 babies in 2019, the peak
Esmee peaked in 2019, when 78 girls were given it, #2,312 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,304 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,662 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,239 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,134 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,796 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,514 | 26.6 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,312 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,450 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,065 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,774 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,945 | 33.1 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,131 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,949 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,529 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,964 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,052 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,594 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,973 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,086 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,390 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,173 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,966 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,706 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,361 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,810 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Esmee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esmee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esmee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esmee, and how old are they?
An estimated 854 Americans named Esmee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Esmee (581 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Esmee born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,574 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,725 | 0.9× |
Where Esmee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Esmee is most over-represented in California: since 2000 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Esmee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,820 babies since 1880, Esmee is the fourth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 1,303 babies (3.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Esmee
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 Esmee and names like it
- Compare Esmee and EsmeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEsmee peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esmee since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Esmee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Esmee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Esmee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.