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Esmee

#3,304 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Esmé

Esmee has been given to 860 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,304 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Esmee, 2025

1 in 70,500

Esmee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esmee: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Esmé

French

What Esmee means

Esmee is a feminine form of Esmé.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Anglicized spelling of the French Esmée or Esmé

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Esmee (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Esmee is used in English and Dutch. Its origins include French.

Esmee comes through French Esmée or Esmé.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Esmé.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Esmee is pronounced /ɛsˈmeː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 860 girls were recorded with the name Esmee between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,312 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,514 in 2020 to #3,304 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,945 in 2015 to #3,304 in 2025.

How common is Esmee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,304
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esmee 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esmee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esmees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esmee was born before 2017 — so the typical Esmee is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
860
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (468).

Is Esmee 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
+358
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−359
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.3%
Peak was 2019 (78)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,312
2019

Spellings of Esmee

Esmee is not the most common spelling — Aimee is, with 34.8% against Esmee's 0.55%.

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 Esmee is used

Across 1910–2025, Esmee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 226,534 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Wisconsin1 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. Esmee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Esmee around the world

Where Esmee 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
    1996–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #27
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #488
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Esmee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,304
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 210
Best rank ever
#2,312
2019
Peak year
2019
78 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
860
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Esmee

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

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Sibling names for Esmee

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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