Esme Girl
How popular is Esme?
#298 girl name in 2025
1,032 baby girls were named Esme in the US in 2025, making it the 298th most popular girl name.
Esme popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #298 for girls (▲ 45 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,032 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+146% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #680 in 2015, #395 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (1,053 girls) |
| Highest rank | #298 in 2025 |
| First recorded | 1913 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Esme counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Esme family of names ranked #311 for girls in 2025 (#345 the year before), with 1,057 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Esme | 1,032 | 98% |
| Ezme | 25 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Esme is most popular
Babies named Esme per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maine: 3.4 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Rhode Island: 2.2 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- South Dakota: 1.8 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.7 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Vermont: 1.7 per 1,000 (8 girls)
Esme by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,185 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,672 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,566 |
| 1970s | 17 | #7,982 |
| 1980s | 75 | #4,531 |
| 1990s | 189 | #2,932 |
| 2000s | 968 | #1,063 |
| 2010s | 4,092 | #426 |
| 2020s | 5,559 | #298 |
Girl names about as popular as Esme
Questions
- Is Esme a boy or girl name?
- Esme is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Esme were girls.
- How popular is the name Esme?
- 1,032 baby girls were named Esme in the US in 2025, making it the 298th most popular girl name.
- When was Esme most popular?
- Esme peaked in 2022, when 1,053 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #298 in 2025.
- How many people are named Esme?
- 10,930 babies have been named Esme in the US since 1880. We estimate about 10,871 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 6.
- Where is Esme most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Esme was most common in Maine, at 3.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.