# Esperanza (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/esperanza/  
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 | 20,884 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 35 / 20,849 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14, 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 | 296 | 884 |
| 2012 | 240 | 1,050 |
| 2013 | 249 | 1,004 |
| 2014 | 258 | 1,013 |
| 2015 | 298 | 922 |
| 2016 | 264 | 999 |
| 2017 | 277 | 955 |
| 2018 | 265 | 991 |
| 2019 | 272 | 966 |
| 2020 | 270 | 949 |
| 2021 | 224 | 1,105 |
| 2022 | 262 | 998 |
| 2023 | 258 | 992 |
| 2024 | 252 | 1,013 |
| 2025 | 188 | 1,209 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 5 | 4,436 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,419 |
| 1928 | 5 | 4,349 |
| 1931 | 5 | 3,954 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,584 |
| 1985 | 5 | 6,871 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,235 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |

## People named Esperanza

- Esperanza Spalding, American jazz bassist and singer (born 1984)
- Esperanza Gomez, Colombian pornographic actress (born 1980)

## 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.