Esmee

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Esmee: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #185 in 2015, and it stood at #337 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#185highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#1666
1998	#1319
1999	#985
2000	#728
2001	#796
2002	#1104
2003	#965
2004	#772
2005	#756
2006	#909
2007	#615
2008	#487
2009	#614
2010	#285
2011	#332
2012	#261
2013	#260
2014	#307
2015	#185
2016	#232
2017	#340
2018	#344
2019	#417
2020	#494
2021	#506
2022	#504
2023	#592
2024	#826

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #476 among girls in Scotland, #826 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #974 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #185 among girls in England and Wales, in 2015 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #826 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Esmee appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,573 births with the name.

Esmee across 3 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.

Esmee'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	#974 (1996)	#185 (2015)	#826 (2024)	29 of 29	2,573 (1996–2024)	300 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#209 (2015)	#337 (2024)	11 of 17	50 (2008–2024)	9 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#362 (2015)	#362 (2015)	#524 (2017)	3 of 3	27 (2015–2017)	13 (2015)

Esmee 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 Esmee in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	66	4 of 10	17
2000s	410	10 of 10	41
2010sbusiest	1,745	10 of 10	175
2020s	352	5 of 10	70

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 175 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 150, from 150 to 300.

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

Esmee 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #185 in England and Wales in 2015.

Esmee'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	#826	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#592	64	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#504	79	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#506	82	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#494	82	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#417	101	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#344	139	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#340	140	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#232	223	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#185	300	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#307	150	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#260	185	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#261	190	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#332	145	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#285	172	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#614	61	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#615	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#909	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#756	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#772	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#965	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#796	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#728	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#985	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1319	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#251	7	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#209	9	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	13	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #185, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 300 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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.

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Esmeralda · #638, 26y
Esmerelda · #1224, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Romeo · #185, 28y
Coen · #186, 24y
Darla · #184, 24y
Lily-Mae · #186, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Eiril · #185, 26y
Romeo · #185, 28y
Coen · #186, 24y
Courteney · #186, 15y

Esmee was ranked #185 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.

Esmee 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 Esmee without appearing here.

Esmee moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1319 and #1319 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #985 and #1970.
Belinda Compare
In 2003 they stood at #965 and #909 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #772 and #1715.
Tracey Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1319 and #1319 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #985 and #1675.
Levi Compare
In 2006 they stood at #909 and #835 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #615 and #1296.

Moved ahead of Esmee

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #756 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #909 and #456.
Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #592 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #826 and #625.
Ivy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #796 and #962 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1104 and #998.
Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #261 and #284 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #260 and #160.

Moved the opposite way to Esmee

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmee went from #974 to #506 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmee went from #1319 to #592 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmee went from #974 to #506 while Tyler went from #230 to #5581.
Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmee went from #974 to #344 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.

Moved the same way as Esmee

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmee went from #1666 to #826 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esmee went from #1666 to #826 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #185 in England and Wales in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Esmee

Esmee at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Esmee across 3 official records

Esmee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Esmee appears in

Popularity data

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Esmee at a glance

Esmee across 3 official records

Esmee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Esmee

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Esmee moved ahead of

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