Esperansa
Esperansa is a girl's name that peaked in 2000, when it was the 5,491st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 390 Esperansas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Esperansa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 503
- Estimated living today
- 390
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 5,491st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1920
How old the living Esperansas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 503 babies given the name since 1920, about 390 are alive — 78 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Esperansa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Esperansa is most concentrated in Texas (9.5×), California (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular girls’ names the year Esperansa peaked:
Esperansa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Esperansa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.