Esti
Esti was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,008 among girls’ names; 246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Esti mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Esti is “a diminutive of the female given name Esther.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Esti?
#4,008 among girls’ names, 2025
Esti rose from #9,684 in 2015 to #4,008 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 22.4 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Esti peaked in 2024, when 36 girls were given it, #4,062 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,008 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,062 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,489 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,807 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,745 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,320 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,337 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,516 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,116 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,684 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,275 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,297 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,699 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,805 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,667 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,862 | 3.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,731 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,303 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,837 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Esti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esti, and how old are they?
An estimated 244 Americans named Esti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 325 people named Esti (318 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,938 babies since 1880, Esti is the fifth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 161 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
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 Esti
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 Esti and names like it
- Compare Esti and EstaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEsti peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esti since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Esti.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Esti alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.