girls:
39.6k births since 1880
#680 (88th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1881
#3395 (26th percentile)
overall:
40.8k births since 1880
#1228 (84th percentile)
The name Essie is the #1,228 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 40,784 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #680 (88.1% percentile) for all time with 39,572 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,395 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,212 births since 1881.
Essie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys). Birth data for Essie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 79 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 Essie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Essie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 69.0% percentile (ranked #185) with 871 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 1,563 births per million (ranked 65.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Essie ranks #899 for girls (5.1% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Essie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #500) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 144 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Essie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Essie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Essie is pronounced as EH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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