Girls' name · since 2017
Esmy
27 babies named Esmy in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #42,196 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,642 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 27
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
27 babies have been named Esmy since 2017, making it today's #16642 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Esmy recorded 27 times among girls since 2017, holding rank #16642 nationally today, ahead of 4% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #42,196 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,642 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 27 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Esmy ranks #42,196 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,642 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 27 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #42,196 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,642 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 27
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Esmy's 27 recorded births place it above 41.22% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Esmy compares
27 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Esmy's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Esmy | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 27 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Esmy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Esmy splits its recorded history at 2024: 56% of all births land in the more recent half, 44% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2017 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Esmy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Esmy by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (22 births, 81% of the file).
2020s was Esmy's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 81% of all-time use.
Esmy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 22 births (81% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Esmy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~8 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Esmy draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.