Name Awesome

Esma

#5,292 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Asma

Esma has been given to 915 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #5,292 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Esma, 2025

1 in 138,000

Esma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esma: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Asma

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esma means

Esma is a form of Asma.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Esma → Asma. The family’s meaning is “supreme, higher”, recorded in the naming reference for Asma.

Origin, language, and formation

Esma is used in Albanian and Turkish.

Esma comes through Arabic أَسْمَاء.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Asma.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Esma is pronounced /esˈmaː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 915 girls were recorded with the name Esma between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,030 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,063 in 2020 to #5,292 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,432 in 2015 to #5,292 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Esma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,292
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esma was born before 2005 — so the typical Esma is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
529
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (237).

Is Esma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,304
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−229
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−860
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2019 (39)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,030
1890

Spellings of Esma

Esma is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 27.8% against Esma's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Esma is used

Across 1910–2025, Esma was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 635,309 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Missouri1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Esma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Esma around the world

Where Esma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #311
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Esma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,292
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 229
Best rank ever
#1,030
1890
Peak year
2019
39 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
915
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Esma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EsmeeEsmaeEsmiEsmayAsmaEsmeEsmieBasmaEsmerayBismaPrismaEsmyEsmereldaDesmaJasmaKarismaEsmarieIsmaEsmariKharismaEsmeraeCarismaEsmerCharisma

Sibling names for Esma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Esma

Top names of 2019, Esma's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 1890Girls' names starting with EUncommon Turkish Girl Names