Estee
Estee was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,624 among girls’ names; 873 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Estee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Estee is “a diminutive of the female given name Esther, variant of Esti.”
From Esther + -ee.
/ˈɛstiː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Estee?
#6,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Estee rose from #9,122 in 2015 to #6,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 10.6 per million.
29 babies in 1992, the peak
Estee peaked in 1992, when 29 girls were given it, #3,701 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,624 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,012 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,027 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,531 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,610 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,104 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,266 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,361 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,198 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,360 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,122 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,735 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,502 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,235 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,486 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,986 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,188 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,516 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,670 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,836 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,927 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,520 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,708 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,637 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,708 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,048 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,998 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,645 | 10.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,352 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,186 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,245 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,050 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,701 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,742 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,116 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,396 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,356 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,345 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,403 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,321 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,375 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,992 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,395 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,368 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,381 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,472 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,310 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,728 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,208 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,667 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,167 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,977 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,151 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,712 | 3.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,568 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,362 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,039 | 4.4 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,823 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Estee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 873 Americans recorded as Estee, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Estee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estee, and how old are they?
An estimated 795 Americans named Estee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 15 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 880 people named Estee (835 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,938 babies since 1880, Estee is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 161 babies (11%), again the third 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 Estee
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 Estee and names like it
- Compare Estee and EstaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEstee peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estee since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Estee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Estee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.