girls:
20.4k births since 1903
#1019 (82nd percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1923
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
20.4k births since 1903
#1792 (77th percentile)
The name Esperanza is the #1,792 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,438 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 76.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,019 (82.2% percentile) for all time with 20,403 births since 1903. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1923.
Esperanza first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (1903 for girls and 1923 for boys). Birth data for Esperanza is available in 120 out of the 121 years between 1903 and 2023 (120 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Esperanza has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Esperanza reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 47.4% percentile (ranked #472) with 250 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 250 births per million (ranked 47.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Esperanza ranks #698 for girls (26.3% percentile) with 147 births per million, which is 59.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Esperanza reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #520) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Esperanza".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Esperanza. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 14.8% confident that Esperanza is pronounced as eh-sper-AHN-zuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-sper-AHN-zuh, at 14.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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