Girls' name · peaked in 1904
Essie name popularity since 1925
18,341 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Essie (96.5% girls, 3.5% boys). Half of them were born in 1938 or earlier, so the typical Essie is about 88 years old in 2026. Essie peaked in 1904 as the #129 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 18,341
- Named Essie, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1904
- #129 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #3,306 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 96.5% girls
- 17,700 girls · 641 boys
- Most popular in
- Mississippi
- 12.65× its national share
Peak year is the year Essie made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Essie births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Essie peaked earlier, in 1904.
- Steepest fall: Between 1952 and 1957, Essie's share of baby girls fell by 49%, from 1 in 6,550 to 1 in 12,800.
Shaded on the chart. This compares Essie's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Essie.
Decade by decade
Babies named Essie in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 4,064 | 130 | – |
| 1930s | 5,355 | 195 | #272 |
| 1940s | 3,696 | 159 | #350 |
| 1950s | 2,274 | 115 | #620 |
| 1960s | 892 | 20 | #1,172 |
| 1970s | 355 | 7 | #2,991 |
| 1980s | 231 | 15 | #2,817 |
| 1990s | 151 | 0 | #7,680 |
| 2000s | 84 | 0 | #12,181 |
| 2010s | 310 | 0 | #4,330 |
| 2020–25 | 288 | 0 | #3,306 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.
Generation fingerprint
52.1% of babies named Essie from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:
Where Essie is most popular
The index compares Essie's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Essie.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 12.65× | 2,370 |
| Alabama | 6.92× | 1,894 |
| South Carolina | 6.80× | 1,474 |
| Arkansas | 5.79× | 921 |
| Georgia | 5.08× | 2,172 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Essie's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Essie.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Essie (1904).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data