Esmay

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Esmay: Recorded since 2000, it reached #517 in 2015, and it stood at #1,541 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#517highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2002	#4137
2005	#2438
2006	#3116
2007	#2233
2008	#3397
2009	#2148
2010	#1332
2011	#1438
2012	#1428
2013	#584
2014	#547
2015	#517
2016	#645
2017	#715
2018	#826
2019	#823
2020	#1100
2021	#1402
2022	#982
2023	#1087
2024	#1541

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 22 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

In 2021: #883 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1402 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #517 among girls in England and Wales, in 2015 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1541 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Esmay appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 693 births with the name.

Esmay 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.

Esmay'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	#3912 (2000)	#517 (2015)	#1541 (2024)	22 of 25	693 (2000–2024)	83 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#651 (2017)	#883 (2021)	4 of 6	14 (2016–2021)	5 (2017)

Esmay 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 Esmay in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	47	7 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	508	10 of 10	51
2020s	138	5 of 10	28

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 51 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 48, from 22 to 70.

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

Esmay 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 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #517 in England and Wales in 2015.

Esmay'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	#1541	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1087	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#982	35	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1402	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#823	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#715	57	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#645	65	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#517	83	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#547	77	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#584	70	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1428	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	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 2000 and 2024, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #517, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 83 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 16 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-Rose · #1200, 13y
Esmai · #495, 19y
Esme · #33, 33y
Esme-Rose · #968, 15y

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.

Apryl · #517, 19y
Ciera · #517, 21y
Laya · #517, 20y
Leisha · #517, 23y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Ilinca · #517, 14y
Laya · #517, 20y
Andrey · #518, 24y
Faustas · #518, 14y

Esmay was ranked #517 in England and Wales · Girls in 2015. 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.

Esmay 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 Esmay without appearing here.

Esmay moved ahead of

Cameron Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1428 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #584 and #4050.
Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3397 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1332 and #4688.
Jesse Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2148 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1332 and #4688.
Shea Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2148 and #2148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1332 and #4688.

Moved ahead of Esmay

Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3116 and #2137.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #823 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1100 and #460.
Eabha Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1087 and #1169 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1541 and #1262.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #645 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #715 and #499.

Moved the opposite way to Esmay

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Esmay

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmay went from #3912 to #1541 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

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 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #517 in England and Wales in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Esmay

Esmay at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Esmay across 2 official records

Esmay by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Esmay at a glance

Esmay across 2 official records

Esmay by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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