Espen — #3742 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Espen

The Social Security Administration has registered 686 babies named Espen between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Espen currently holds the #3742 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Espen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 133 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Espen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 299 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Espen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Espen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Espen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 686 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.