Estonian Boy Names

Estonian names combine local forms with names shared around the Baltic. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,009#335
Down 42 rank positions in five years
1963

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1911.

549#546
Down 124 rank positions in five years
1980

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1880.

107#1,593
Down 23 rank positions in five years
1960

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,744#200
Up 19 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1886.

12#6,912
Down 517 rank positions in five years
1915

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1893.

47#2,724
Up 2,179 rank positions in five years
1915

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1971.

93#1,751
Up 636 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Estonian as Märt; in U.S. records from 1880.

—Unranked
—
1958

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1906.

—Unranked
—
1918

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1911.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1925.

5#13,573
Up 137 rank positions in five years
1998

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1987.

9#8,239
Down 2,544 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2000.

10#7,816
Down 3,510 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1913.

—Unranked
—
1923

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2000.

16#5,717
Up 1,536 rank positions in five years
2014

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1943.

—Unranked
—
1964

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1982.

—Unranked
—
1998

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2007.

—Unranked
—
2015

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1912.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2000.

8#9,308
Up 3,779 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2000.

11#7,496
Down 608 rank positions in five years
2019

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1953.

6#11,701
Up 1,908 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1999.

5#12,767
Down 5,032 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1888.

12#7,095
Up 6,503 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1916.

5#12,146
new
2011

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2014.

32#3,551
Up 7,729 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2013.

6#10,755
Down 97 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1882.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1912.

—Unranked
—
2024

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1914.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1917.

—Unranked
—
1926

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1917.

5#12,586
new
1917

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1989.

—Unranked
—
1997

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 2004.

6#11,344
new
2016

Recorded in Estonian; in U.S. records from 1973.

—Unranked
—
1973

Recorded in Estonian as Jüri; in U.S. records from 1974.

—Unranked
—
1974

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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