US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE ESPERANZA

Same rise and fall as Esperanza, around the same years.

WHERE ESPERANZA IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Esperanza ranked highest in New Mexico (#570) and lowest in Florida (#2,793). 38 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Esperanza name popularity

Esperanza has been given to 20,884 babies in the United States since 1903.

It peaked in 2000, when 499 babies got the name, and its best rank was #816 in 1929.

In 2025, 188 babies were named Esperanza (#2,303 in the country), 62% below the peak. That is down 37% from 2015.

Almost every Esperanza is a girl.

An estimated 16K people named Esperanza are alive in the US today, with a median age of 27.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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