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Estee

#6,624 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of Esther

Estee has been given to 873 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #6,624 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Estee, 2025

1 in 195,000

Estee over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Estee over time

In 2025, Estee went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19172025

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.

Estee: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Esther

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Estee means

Estee is a diminutive of Esther.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Estee → Esther. The family’s meaning is “Ishtar”, recorded in English with the source elements Ištar.

Origin, language, and formation

Estee is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Esther and Esti.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Estee is pronounced /ˈɛstiː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 830 girls were recorded with the name Estee between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,208 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,104 in 2020 to #6,624 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,122 in 2015 to #6,624 in 2025.

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Estee between 1917 and 1955. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1924; its best national rank was #3,612 in 1940.

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 Estee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,624
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Estee 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Estee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Estees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Estee was born before 1993 — so the typical Estee is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
809
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Choose a decade

1980s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Estee 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
−612
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,480
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,498
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.6%
Peak was 1992 (29)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,208
1976

Spellings of Estee

Estee is not the most common spelling — Esther is, with 60.1% against Estee's 0.18%.

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 Estee is used

Across 1910–2025, Estee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 446,165 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Estee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Estee around the world

Where Estee 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
    1998–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2024
    #3,323
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2013–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1979–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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.

Estee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,624
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,480
Best rank ever
#3,208
1976
Peak year
1992
29 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
830
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,612
1940
Peak year
1924
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1955
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Estee

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

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Sibling names for Estee

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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