girls:
10.3k births since 1973
#1563 (73rd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2021
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
10.3k births since 1973
#2622 (66th percentile)
The name Essence is the #2,622 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,316 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 66.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,563 (72.7% percentile) for all time with 10,311 births since 1973. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Essence first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for girls and 2021 for boys).
The name Essence has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Essence reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 51.5% percentile (ranked #424) with 291 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 291 births per million (ranked 51.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Essence ranks #706 for girls (25.5% percentile) with 142 births per million, which is 48.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Essence reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Essence".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Essence is pronounced as EH-suhns, which has 2 syllables.
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