Esmai

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Esmai: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Esmai: Recorded every year since 2006, it reached #495 in 2016, and it stood at #1,894 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#495highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2007	#2895
2008	#3860
2009	#3936
2010	#1429
2011	#1096
2012	#975
2013	#561
2014	#582
2015	#512
2016	#495
2017	#648
2018	#755
2019	#838
2020	#821
2021	#1259
2022	#876
2023	#1469
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2006 to 2024.

In 2019: #716 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #838 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2006–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #5061 among girls in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2006–2024
Highest recorded position: #495 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016 (recorded 2006–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Esmai appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2006, and has registered 731 births with the name.

Esmai across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Esmai's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5061 (2006)	#495 (2016)	#1894 (2024)	19 of 19	731 (2006–2024)	88 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#873 (2017)	#716 (2019)	#716 (2019)	2 of 3	7 (2017–2019)	4 (2019)

Esmai by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Esmai in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	20	4 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	565	10 of 10	57
2020s	146	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 57 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 36, from 37 to 73.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Esmai appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #495 in England and Wales in 2016.

Esmai's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#876	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1259	26	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#838	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#755	52	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#648	64	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#495	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#512	84	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#582	71	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#561	73	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1096	31	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2006 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #495, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 88 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Esmae · #102, 29y
Esmae-Rose · #1200, 13y
Esmay · #517, 22y
Esme · #33, 33y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Adamas · #495, 15y
Feliks · #495, 16y
Dianna · #497, 14y
Somtochukwu · #493, 16y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Adamas · #495, 15y
Feliks · #495, 16y
Iza · #495, 13y
Ralphy · #495, 20y

Esmai was ranked #495 in England and Wales · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Esmai and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Esmai without appearing here.

Esmai moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1096 and #5785.
Geraldine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3936 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1429 and #5707.
Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3936 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1429 and #5707.
Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3936 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1429 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Esmai

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #838 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #821 and #460.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1469 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #1743.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #495 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #648 and #499.
Rory Compare
In 2022 they stood at #876 and #1452 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1469 and #1469.

Moved the opposite way to Esmai

Abigail Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 while Abigail went from #23 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 while Aisling went from #1004 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 while Alex went from #279 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Esmai

Ada Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 and Ada from #976 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 and Alma from #1087 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 and Amelia from #16 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmai went from #5061 to #1894 and Aria from #1280 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #495 in England and Wales in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Esmai

Esmai at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Esmai across 2 official records

Esmai by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Esmai appears in

Popularity data

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Esmai at a glance

Esmai across 2 official records

Esmai by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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