Esme
864
Babies in 2024
-25%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 1.42k
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Esme
Esme is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #51 for girls born in 2024 with 864 babies registered in England & Wales.
Esme reached its peak in 2016, when 1,416 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #35 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 864 represents 61% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 20,606 girls have been officially registered with the name Esme in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 12,529 girls were registered with the name, starting from 1,151 in 2014 and ending at 864 in 2024.