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How popular is the name Esme?
Births per year, rank history and how many Esmes are alive today.
Esme (female) is currently the 45th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 933 babies given the name in 2025. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 1,416 babies were given the name, the 35th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 21,000 babies have been named Esme in England and Wales since 1996. Esme is one spelling of a name also recorded as Esmae, Esmai, Esmay and Ezmae; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Esme you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Esmes born in England and Wales are between 6 and 14, and there are at least 30,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 9.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Esme.
How many babies are named Esme each year?
Includes all spellings: Esme, Esmae, Esmai, Esmay, Ezmae. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Esme spelling rank?
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Where does the Esmay spelling rank?
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Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Esme most popular?
Esme peaked in 2016, when 2,105 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Esme?
At least 30,000 people named Esme in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Esme?
Most living Esmes are between 6 and 14; the most common age is about 10.
Is Esme becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.