Esme

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Esme is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 1.5K◐
  • SYSyria1 in 5.7K
  • USUnited States1 in 58K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.8K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
86 ●

378K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 10K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

EsmeLatin · Turkish●258K records
ᲔსმეGeorgian · Georgian●42 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.

Sources 2

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Esme is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#385283,026368K rec.——Esme31
SY Syria#6815,7935.9K rec.——Esme4
US United States—5,778△971 rec.1 in 58K5.8KEsme86
NL Netherlands—1,096△301 rec.1 in 16K1.1KEsme15
ZA South Africa—651639 rec.——Esme11
GB United Kingdom—509371 rec.—864Esme42
SE Sweden—217495 rec.1 in 47K217Esme8
BE Belgium—200210 rec.—10Esme5
DK Denmark—190—1 in 31K190——
FR France—175—1 in 388K175——
FI Finland—163△7 rec.1 in 34K218—2
CY Cyprus—159182 rec.——Esme5

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Languages●

  • Turkish258K82%
  • English20K6%
  • Spanish15K5%
  • Arabic4.3K1%
  • German2.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish257,51382%
English19,6196%
Spanish14,7495%
Arabic4,3211%
German2,3601%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Esme is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name30K records spelled Esme34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, South Africa

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Esmé, Esme', Esmè, Esmë, Eşme

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Esme35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Ësmë, Esmë, Esmé, Ësme, Esme'

  • French given name1.9K records spelled Esme8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Also written Esmé, Ésmé, Esmè, Ëšmé, Esmê

  • Finnish given name1.6K records spelled Esme4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Esmé

  • Russian given name972 records spelled Esme39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Bulgaria, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Bulgarian

    Also written Эсме, Есме, Esmee, Эшме, Есмє

  • a separate given name380 records spelled Esme5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written Esmé, Eşme, Eșme, Esmè

  • Persian given name162 records spelled Esme4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, South Africa, Iraq

    Languages: Persian, Pashto

    Also written Eşme, Esmé

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Esme is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, inflection of esmar:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Esamība; tas, kas eksistē

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1920194019601980200020201.1K · 2022

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Esme in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–2025
Yearrecords
19135
19395
19535
19615
19715
19756
19766
19805
198116
19828
19836
19845
19855
19869
19878
19888
19895
19907
19918
19927
199315
199419
199518
199619
199722
199829
199945
200035
200142
200267
200376
200475
200568
2006105
2007106
2008154
2009240
2010280
2011263
2012260
2013274
2014342
2015419
2016431
2017513
2018565
2019745
2020788
2021828
20221,053
2023950
2024908
20251,032

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1913–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, b. 1542Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, b. 1579Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, b. 1649Lennox Robinson, b. 1886Esmé Bianco, b. 1982Alice Levine, b. 1986Esme Booth, b. 1998Esmé Creed-Miles, b. 2000Esme Morgan, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 58 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Esme
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.8K#3,547
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251K—
GB United KingdomONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024)2024864#51
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—218#3,312
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—217#4,933
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—190#1,035
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—163—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—128#6,554
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024120—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020107—
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)2024102#33
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—93#5,772

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 349 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Esme?
We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Esme (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Esme have the most bearers?
Esme is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled esme.
How common is Esme compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Esme is the 385th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Esme a male or female name?
Esme is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Esme mean?
Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Esme” — the 385th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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