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Esmond

#9,998 in 2025Boys' name

Grace + protection

Esmond has been given to 507 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #9,998 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Esmond, 2025

1 in 474,000

Esmond over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esmond: meaning, origin, and history

Grace + protection

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esmond means

Esmond means “grace + protection”.

Origin, language, and formation

Esmond is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 507 boys were recorded with the name Esmond between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,401 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,743 in 2020 to #9,998 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,079 in 2015 to #9,998 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 Esmond?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,998
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esmond sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esmond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esmonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esmond was born before 1978 — so the typical Esmond is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
301
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Esmond 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
+206
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,255
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,919
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2023 (15)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,401
1907

Spellings of Esmond

Esmond is not the most common spelling — Edmund is, with 34.5% against Esmond's 0.34%.

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 Esmond is used

Across 1910–2025, Esmond was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Esmond has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Esmond around the world

Where Esmond 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
    2001–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1975–1975
    #321
    in 1975
  • South Australia
    1945–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Esmond by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,998
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,255
Best rank ever
#1,401
1907
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
507
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Esmond

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

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Sibling names for Esmond

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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