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Espn

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
ES-pun
Origin
Modern

Espn is a name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Espn mean?

Modern: spelled like the sports broadcaster ESPN

Spelled like the American sports broadcaster ESPN.

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

In recent years, Espn has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls.

How popular is Espn in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.

Half of all the girls named Espn in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

2015Busiest: 12 in 20172023
Espn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20236#13,456
20220–
20210–
20206#13,448
20196#13,793
20187#12,459
201712#8,772
20169#10,855
20159#10,861

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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, “Espn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/espn, updated 20 October 2026.