Essie
Essie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 63 births. Its best rank was 126th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 630.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19211,032 births
- Best rank
- #126in 1896
- Since 1880
- 40,847people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,635 girls have been named Essie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 1,032 births.
The name has all but left use: 63 births in 2024, against 1,032 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,212 boys have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Essie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,554 | |
| 1890s | 3,059 | |
| 1900s | 4,467 | |
| 1910s | 7,999 | |
| 1920s | 8,967 | |
| 1930s | 5,355 | |
| 1940s | 3,696 | |
| 1950s | 2,274 | |
| 1960s | 892 | |
| 1970s | 355 | |
| 1980s | 231 | |
| 1990s | 151 | |
| 2000s | 84 | |
| 2010s | 310 | |
| 2020s | 241 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Essie was the 199th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Essie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Omapeak 1916
- Madgepeak 1920
- Loviepeak 1919
- Ednapeak 1918
- Verniepeak 1916
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Verdiepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.