# Esma (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/esma/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 915 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 915 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 425, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 8,331 |
| 2012 | 16 | 7,567 |
| 2013 | 19 | 6,552 |
| 2014 | 28 | 4,939 |
| 2015 | 32 | 4,433 |
| 2016 | 35 | 4,190 |
| 2017 | 17 | 6,897 |
| 2018 | 22 | 5,661 |
| 2019 | 39 | 3,812 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,066 |
| 2021 | 24 | 5,281 |
| 2022 | 34 | 4,233 |
| 2023 | 31 | 4,491 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,989 |
| 2025 | 24 | 5,293 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 1,807 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,893 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,501 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,362 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,211 |
| 2017 | 27 | 1,258 |
| 2018 | 29 | 1,170 |
| 2019 | 28 | 1,189 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,556 |
| 2021 | 22 | 1,402 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,767 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,575 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## People named Esma

- Esma Agolli, Albanian actress (1928-2010)
- Esma Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I (1778–1848)
- Esma Cannon, Australian-born British actress (1905-1972)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.