Esmee
Esmee reached its high-water mark in 2019 at number 2,305, and has been recorded 860 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,296th. About 860 Esmees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Esmee
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 860
- Estimated living today
- 860
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 2,305th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,296th
- First recorded
- 2000
How old the living Esmees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 860 babies given the name since 2000, about 860 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 790 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Anglicized spelling of the French Esmée or Esmé.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Esmees
- Esmée Denters (born 1988)Dutch singer-songwriter
- Esmee Visser (born 1996)Dutch speedskater
- Esmee Brugts (born 2003)Dutch association football player
People named Esmee with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Esmee is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Esmee is most concentrated in California (5.2×), Texas (3.9×), New York (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular girls’ names the year Esmee peaked:
Esmee elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Esmée +3 spellings | 5,345 | 27th |
| England and Wales girls | Esmee | 2,611 | 185th |
| Belgium girls | Esmée +1 spelling | 2,037 | 57th |
| Scotland girls | Esmee | 136 | 201st |
| Switzerland girls | Esmée | 100 | 241st |
| Ireland girls | Esmée +1 spelling | 66 | 362nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Esmee | 53 | 209th |
| Poland girls | Esmee | 3 birth registrations | 624th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Esmee: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Esmée | 21 | 0.002% | 663rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Esmée | 79 | 0.018% | 58th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Esmee is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Esmee: rank by region
In 2025, Esmee was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Esmée | 86 | 62 |
| Flanders | Esmee | 249 | 22 |
| Wallonia | Esmée | 39 | 66 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Esmee appears in the lists for Province of Namur (Esmée, 13th), Province of Luxembourg (Esmée, 18th), Province of Hainaut (Esmée, 29th), Province of West Flanders (Esmée, 50th), Province of Limburg (Esmée, 63rd), Province of Liège (Esmée, 70th), Province of East Flanders (Esmée, 98th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Esmée, 108th), Province of Antwerp (Esmée, 128th), Province of East Flanders (Esmee, 171st) and Province of Antwerp (Esmee, 276th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Esmee by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 544th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Esmee among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Esmee | 7,773 | 10,726 |
| Finland girls | Esmée +1 spelling | — | 12 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Esmee against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.