Esper
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Esper has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% boys, 39% girls all-time.
Babies named Esper, 2019
1 in 496,000
Esper over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Esper over time
In 2025, Esper went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Esper?
Esper had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Esper sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Espers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Esper was born before 1918 — so the typical Esper is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Esper 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (9)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Esper
Esper is not the most common spelling — Lester is, with 27.6% against Esper's <0.01%.
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.
Esper by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Esper
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Esper
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.