About the name Essie
Essie 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, Essie first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #126 in 1896, and in 2024 63 babies received the name — 39,635 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.