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Esmae

#1,445 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Esmé

Esmae has been given to 1,527 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #1,445 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 170 recorded.

Babies named Esmae, 2025

1 in 22,200

Esmae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esmae: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Esmé

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esmae means

Esmae is a feminine form of Esmé.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Esmae → Esmé. The family’s proposed meaning is “esteemed”, recorded in English with the source elements esmé.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Esmé.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,527 girls were recorded with the name Esmae between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 170 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,369 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,689 in 2020 to #1,445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,899 in 2015 to #1,445 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 Esmae?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,200
149 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,445
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,423 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esmae 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,423 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esmae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esmaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esmae was born before 2020 — so the typical Esmae is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,527
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (828).

Is Esmae 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
+558
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+244
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,454
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.6%
Peak was 2022 (170)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,369
2022

Spellings of Esmae

Esmae is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 73.1% against Esmae's 0.14%.

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 Esmae is used

Across 2016–2025, Esmae was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 16,290 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

221 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 4,762
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 4,762
  3. 3Oregon1 in 5,556
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,556
  5. 5Michigan1 in 5,882
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 6,250
  7. 7Indiana1 in 10,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 10,000

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.

Esmae around the world

Where Esmae 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
    #162
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2024
    #227
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–1946
    #367
    in 1946

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Esmae by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 244
Best rank ever
#1,369
2022
Peak year
2022
170 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,527
Count in 2025
149

Names similar to Esmae

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

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Sibling names for Esmae

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

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