Esty
Esty was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,176 among girls’ names; 980 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esty?
#2,176 among girls’ names, 2025
Esty rose from #3,868 in 2015 to #2,176 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 52.9 per million.
89 babies in 2024, the peak
Esty peaked in 2024, when 89 girls were given it, #2,140 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,176 | 52.9 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,140 | 54.9 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,429 | 46.1 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,610 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,652 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,533 | 42.1 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,833 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,698 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,089 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,606 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,868 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,033 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,729 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,969 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,604 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,458 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,954 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,412 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,222 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,485 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,239 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,872 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,245 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,446 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,088 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,049 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,403 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,414 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,200 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,134 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,186 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Esty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esty has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esty, and how old are they?
An estimated 973 Americans named Esty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 638 people named Esty (618 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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).
Where are babies named Esty born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 73 | #236 | 11.7× |
Where Esty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Esty is most over-represented in New York: since 1993 it was given 11.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Esty with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,938 babies since 1880, Esty is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 161 babies (53%), the 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 Esty
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 Esty and names like it
- Compare Esty and EstaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEsty peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esty since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Esty.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Esty alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.