Esme
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛsmɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esme is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.5K
- GYGuyana1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esme 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #391 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Esme | 32 |
| US United States | — | 5,818 | 1 in 57K | 5.8K | Esme | 83 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Esme | 10 |
| SY Syria | #787 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Esme | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 864 | Esme | 46 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,107 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Esme | 14 |
| GY Guyana | — | 74 | 1 in 10K | 74 | — | — |
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); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennoxb. 1542FRScottish noble (1542-1583)
- Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennoxb. 1579FRScottish noble
- Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmondb. 1649FRScottish duke
- Lennox Robinsonb. 1886IEnot in their usual nameIrish writer (1886-1958)
- Esmé Biancob. 1982GBBritish actress
- Alice Levineb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameBritish broadcaster
- Esme Boothb. 1998GBBritish rower
- Esmé Creed-Milesb. 2000GBEnglish actress
- Esme Morganb. 2000GBEnglish footballer
- Esmé Weijun WangUSAmerican writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #3,547 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 864 | #51 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 102 | #33 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 93 | #5,772 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 74 | #520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40 | #3,547 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 31 | #65 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2009 | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Esme?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛsmɛ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Esme mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized spelling of French Esmé. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- 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.
- In which country does Esme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Esme in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esme.
- How common is the name Esme?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,818 people named Esme in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Esme compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Esme is the 391st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Esme?
- In the etymology graph, Esmee, Esmée and Esmae are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Esme?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esmeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Esme” — the 391st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.