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Esmerae

Gender
Girl
Say it
EZ-meh-ray
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#5,916 for girls

Esmerae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).

Where does Esmerae come from?

Modern: blend, probably of Esme and Rae

Is Esmerae a girl's or a boy's name?

Esmerae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Esmerae in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,916among girls
Babies in 2025
20about 1 in 80,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Esmerae, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. It first appears in the records in 2020.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the most girls named Esmerae of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.

Half of all the girls named Esmerae in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.

2020Busiest: 20 in 20252025
Esmerae in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202520#5,916
202414#7,590
20238#11,164
20227#12,237
20215#15,246
20207#12,137

Nicknames for Esmerae

Names like Esmerae

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Esmerae

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Esmerae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/esmerae, updated 20 October 2026.