Esmae

What Esmae means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Esmae yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,890 in 2015, #1,443 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Esmae?

US: Rising: up from #2890 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #124 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 170 girls got the name (#1367 that year). First in the US records in 2008.

How common

• About 1 in 10,787 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 828 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (0.38 per 1,000 girls), MO (0.33 per 1,000 girls), MI (0.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Esmae is #1443 in the US and #162 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Esmae were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Asma129 US · 59 E&W
• Esmee47 US · 38 E&W
• Ezmae42 US · 27 E&W
• Esmay27 US · 16 E&W
• Esma24 US · 12 E&W
• Asmaa15 US · 18 E&W
• Ezmay13 US · 4 E&W
• Ismah0 US · 15 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Esmae

Girls

• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Vera#205“faith”^*
• Isla#28Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #142 in 2015, #28 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025

For a brother

• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Levi#12Editor’s note Up from #42 in 2015 to #12 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 180 US boys in the 2025 records
• Colt#285From the word “colt”^*
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Esmae’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.