Esli
- #4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
- Given to girls 75.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 34 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 469since 1990
Esli over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,172 | 34 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #4,527 | 26 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Esli! It came in at #7,880, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Esli is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#3,095 · 1 in 32,345
- Texas#3,285 · 1 in 32,108
Best ever in a state: #1,874 in California, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Esli
- 5,384 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #4,172)
- 4,234 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #4,172)
- 3,836 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #4,172)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2025 at #4,172 (34 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 47,273 girls born in 2025 were named Esli (0.00%)
- 36.9% of all girls named Esli (173) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 100 | #7,130 (1996) | #8,452 |
| 2000s | 173 | #4,527 (2000) | #6,944 |
| 2010s | 110 | #6,576 (2012) | #10,248 |
| 2020s | 86 | #4,172 (2025) | #8,519 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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