Essence
#1,163 for girls in 2025, 199 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 565 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,744since 1973
Essence over time
Rank among girls' names. Essence has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #1,163 | 199 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,085 | 228 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #1,012 | 250 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,015 | 256 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,441 | 149 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,227 | 186 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,474 | 149 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,425 | 155 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,495 | 148 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,614 | 136 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,464 | 157 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,270 | 189 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,192 | 201 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,096 | 225 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,019 | 245 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,015 | 247 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,006 | 263 | — | |
| 2008 | #977 | 274 | — | |
| 2007 | #944 | 287 | — | |
| 2006 | #838 | 320 | — | |
| 2005 | #928 | 268 | — | |
| 2004 | #813 | 308 | — | |
| 2003 | #749 | 333 | — | |
| 2002 | #846 | 273 | — | |
| 2001 | #741 | 322 | — | |
| 2000 | #583 | 447 | — | |
| 1999 | #491 | 529 | — | |
| 1998 | #456 | 565 | — | |
| 1997 | #542 | 440 | — | |
| 1996 | #542 | 431 | — | |
| 1995 | #490 | 502 | — | |
| 1994 | #775 | 262 | — | |
| 1993 | #817 | 245 | — | |
| 1992 | #876 | 226 | — | |
| 1991 | #973 | 193 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,219 | 138 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,383 | 109 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,384 | 102 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,404 | 95 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,405 | 91 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,710 | 67 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,446 | 80 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,220 | 104 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,608 | 72 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,977 | 52 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Essence! It came in at #6,080, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Essence is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#484 · 1 in 2,010
- Georgia#599 · 1 in 2,677
- Missouri#615 · 1 in 2,643
- South Carolina#633 · 1 in 2,603
- Michigan#682 · 1 in 3,250
Best ever in a state: #146 in South Carolina, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #484 | 14 | 1 in 2,010 |
| Georgia | #599 | 17 | 1 in 2,677 |
| Missouri | #615 | 9 | 1 in 2,643 |
| South Carolina | #633 | 7 | 1 in 2,603 |
| Michigan | #682 | 11 | 1 in 3,250 |
| Ohio | #723 | 13 | 1 in 3,600 |
| Minnesota | #762 | 6 | 1 in 3,555 |
| Illinois | #764 | 12 | 1 in 3,745 |
| North Carolina | #779 | 12 | 1 in 3,852 |
| Tennessee | #780 | 9 | 1 in 3,558 |
| Massachusetts | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,830 |
| New York | #1,060 | 14 | 1 in 5,615 |
| Florida | #1,104 | 13 | 1 in 6,639 |
| California | #1,184 | 22 | 1 in 7,530 |
| Virginia | #1,221 | 5 | 1 in 6,809 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,385 | 5 | 1 in 9,267 |
| Texas | #1,505 | 16 | 1 in 10,210 |
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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 Essence
- 78 spots since 2024 (#1,085 → #1,163)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#1,227 → #1,163)
- 301 spots since 2015 (#1,464 → #1,163)
- Biggest jump: 285 spots in 1995 (#775 → #490)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 2001 (#583 → #741)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1998 at #456 (565 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1991–2008
- Highest: 1 in 3,127 girls born in 1998 were named Essence (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,077 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Essence (3,531) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 182 | #1,977 (1979) | #3,397 |
| 1980s | 816 | #1,220 (1983) | #1,580 |
| 1990s | 3,531 | #456 (1998) | #718 |
| 2000s | 3,095 | #583 (2000) | #843 |
| 2010s | 1,852 | #1,015 (2010) | #1,306 |
| 2020s | 1,268 | #1,012 (2023) | #1,157 |
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.
Essence in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 7,106 of them was named Essence, which outranked 93.9% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 287,148 of them was named Essence, which outranked 23.5% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,894Zyland7
- #9,894Zymair7
- #9,894Zyquan7
- #10,938Essence6
- #10,938Aaden6
- #10,938Aadyant6
- #10,938Aahaan6
- #12,349Aadarsh5
- #12,349Aadiv5
- #12,349Aadrik5
Tied with 1,410 names at #10,938; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.