girls:
44 births since 1913
#5672 (1st percentile)
boys:
535 births since 1887
#4051 (12th percentile)
overall:
579 births since 1887
#7160 (7th percentile)
The name Estes is the #7,160 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 579 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,051 (11.6% percentile) for all time with 535 births since 1887. For girls, it ranks #5,672 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1913.
Estes first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Estes is available in 58 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 7 years for girls). 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 Estes has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Estes were boys.
For boys, Estes reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #478) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 58 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Estes reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #942) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Estes ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 74.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Estes".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Estes. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Estes is pronounced as EH-stihz, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-steez, at 28.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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