Esmë

given name · Latin script

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

Esmë is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 57K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 10K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 16K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,818 people, 2020

Sources
144 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Esme in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.

Sources 2

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Esmë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Esmë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,8181 in 57K5.8KEsme144
NL Netherlands1,1071 in 16K1.1KEsme12
SE Sweden2171 in 47K217—1
DK Denmark1901 in 31K190——
FI Finland1631 in 34K218——
GY Guyana741 in 10K74——

5,818 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Esmë is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name34 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Esme, Esmé, Esme', Esmè, Ësme

  • Turkish given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Turkish, Arabic, Chinese

    Also written Esme, Eşme, Esmé, Ésme, Esmę

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Esmë under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Esmë mean, and where does it come from?
Anglicized spelling of French Esmé. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Esmë a male or female name?
Esmë 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.
In which country does Esmë have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Esmë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esme.
Where is Esmë most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esmë is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Esmë?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,818 people named Esmë in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Esmë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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