Esmerelda vs Esmond

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Esmerelda Esmond

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 84 years in which either name was published, Esmerelda for 47 years and Esmond for 37 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1907–1971 Esmond ahead
• 1972–1976 Esmerelda ahead
• 1977–1978 Esmond ahead
• 1979–1982 Esmerelda ahead
• 1983–1987 Esmond ahead
• 1988–2025 Esmerelda ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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