girls:
1.3k births since 2008
#4445 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 2008
#6464 (16th percentile)
The name Esmae is the #6,464 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,277 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,445 (22.2% percentile) for all time with 1,277 births since 2008.
Esmae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (first recorded for girls in 2008).
For girls, Esmae reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #793) with 95 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 95 births per million (ranked 17.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Esmae ranks #798 for girls (15.8% percentile) with 88 births per million, which is 92.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Esmae".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Esmae", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 14 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Esme" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Esme..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Esmae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.9% confident that Esmae is pronounced as EH-smay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ehz-MAY, at 25.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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