Essie Girl
How popular is Essie?
#3,295 girl name in 2025
47 baby girls were named Essie in the US in 2025, making it the 3295th most popular girl name.
Essie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,295 for girls (▼ 573 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 47 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+42% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,294 in 2015, #4,167 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1921 (1,032 girls) |
| Highest rank | #126 in 1896 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Essie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Essie family of names ranked #2,317 for girls in 2025 (#1,970 the year before), with 52 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Essie | 47 | 90% |
| Ezzie | 5 | 10% |
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 Essie is most popular
Babies named Essie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Alabama: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- Georgia: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (13 girls)
Essie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,554 | #135 |
| 1890s | 3,059 | #126 |
| 1900s | 4,467 | #129 |
| 1910s | 7,999 | #134 |
| 1920s | 8,967 | #197 |
| 1930s | 5,355 | #234 |
| 1940s | 3,696 | #309 |
| 1950s | 2,274 | #458 |
| 1960s | 892 | #885 |
| 1970s | 355 | #1,754 |
| 1980s | 231 | #2,803 |
| 1990s | 151 | #3,998 |
| 2000s | 84 | #8,527 |
| 2010s | 310 | #3,043 |
| 2020s | 288 | #2,722 |
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Questions
- Is Essie a boy or girl name?
- Essie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Essie were girls.
- How popular is the name Essie?
- 47 baby girls were named Essie in the US in 2025, making it the 3295th most popular girl name.
- When was Essie most popular?
- Essie peaked in 1921, when 1,032 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #126 in 1896.
- How many people are named Essie?
- 40,894 babies have been named Essie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,320 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 77.
- Where is Essie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Essie was most common in Alabama, at 0.1 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.