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NAMES LIKE ESSENCE
Same rise and fall as Essence, around the same years.
WHERE ESSENCE IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Essence ranked highest in Indiana (#946) and lowest in Texas (#2,708). 34 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Essence name popularity
Essence has been given to 10,761 babies in the United States since 1973.
It peaked in 1998, when 565 babies got the name, and its best rank was #866 in 1998.
In 2025, 205 babies were named Essence (#2,170 in the country), 64% below the peak. That is up 31% from 2015.
Almost every Essence is a girl.
An estimated 11K people named Essence are alive in the US today, with a median age of 24.
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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