Essance — girls' name
170 babies named Essance in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Essance was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Essance in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Essance
The Social Security Administration has registered 170 babies named Essance between 1993 and 2014, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Essance currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Essance performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Essance shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Essance in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Essance 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 170 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.
Essance at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Essance popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1993
- Peak year (1998)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
170 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 17 births in a single year.
Essance by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 85 births that decade — 50% of Essance's all-time total
Essance decade highlights
- Peak decade 85 births
- Runner-up 64 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Essance's strongest decade
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Essance by state
Where Essance concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 6 | 3.5% |
6 of 170 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.