Essie
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#3,306
down −577 places
2025 births
47
down −16 births
All-time births
39,682
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1921
- 1,032 births
- Best rank
- #126
- in 1896
- First recorded
- 1880
- #168 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1925
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19211,032#199Peak
- 19191,023#189
- 19221,022#200
- 19181,019#194
- 1920996#197
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #126 in 1896 · peak births 1,032 in 1921
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 3% boys■ 97% girls
1,212 boys · 39,682 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Essie has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.