About the name Essence
Essence belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Essence first appears in Social Security records in 1973. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #457 in 1998, and in 2024 227 babies received the name — 10,543 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.