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Ezmay

Gender
Girl
Say it
EZ-may
Origin
French
UK rank, 2025
#4,935 for girls
US rank, 2025
#7,883 for girls

Ezmay is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “esteemed, loved”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Ezmay mean?

French: phonetic spelling of Esme

“esteemed, loved”

Esme comes from Old French; in Scotland it was first a man's name, borne by Esme Stewart, Duke of Lennox.

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

Ezmay is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ezmay in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,935among girls
Babies in 2025
4about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 51% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Ezmay, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 20 girls.

Half of all the girls named Ezmay in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,440 girls in the UK were given Ezmay or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #33, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.

2007Busiest: 20 in 20172025
Ezmay in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20254#4,935
20245#4,253
202310#2,640
20224#4,870
20217#3,338
20207#3,274
201915#1,958
201817#1,810
201720#1,647
201617#1,853
201518#1,739
201411#2,462
201315#1,964
20126#3,881
20116#3,737
20100–
20090–
20080–
20073#5,415

How popular is Ezmay in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 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, 13 girls in the US were named Ezmay, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.

Half of all the girls named Ezmay in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,263 girls in the US were given Ezmay or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #272, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.

2014Busiest: 17 in 20202025
Ezmay in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202410#9,551
202312#8,481
202215#7,276
20219#10,287
202017#6,625
20198#11,350
201810#9,801
201710#9,939
20165#16,210
20157#13,001
20149#10,949

Nicknames for Ezmay

Names like Ezmay

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

Other spellings of Ezmay

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Ezmay: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ezmay, updated 20 October 2026.