Estes
Estes was last recorded in 2025, when 7 babies were given it; 601 Americans have been recorded with it between 1887 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Estes?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,872, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1916, the peak
Estes peaked in 1916, when 29 boys were given it, #1,247 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,872 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,279 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,713 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,973 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,361 | 5.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,242 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,166 | 3.8 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,541 | 5.2 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,562 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 6 | #3,541 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,575 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,468 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,854 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,853 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,474 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,286 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,226 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,447 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,734 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,259 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,613 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,648 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,235 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,004 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,780 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,307 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,940 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,181 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,372 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,390 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,653 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,907 | 8.1 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,111 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,231 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,741 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,258 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,681 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,056 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,778 | 18.8 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,906 | 17.3 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,462 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,768 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,247 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,519 | 24.7 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,153 | 15.3 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,524 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,936 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,597 | 26.6 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,331 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,451 | 32.4 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,106 | 46.8 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,051 | 50.3 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,188 | 40.8 |
| 1893 | 7 | #859 | 62.3 |
| 1888 | 7 | #851 | 57.9 |
| 1887 | 5 | #980 | 49.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Estes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 601 Americans recorded as Estes, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Estes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estes, and how old are they?
An estimated 150 Americans named Estes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Estes (63 women and girls, 224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 789 babies since 1880, Estes is the most given (76% of them).
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 Estes
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 Estes and names like it
- Compare Estes and EstusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEstes peaked in 1916.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estes since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Estes.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Estes alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.