Essie

Essie is a given name and nickname/hypocorism usually used as a feminine name.

As a standalone name, Essie can be found in several languages, including Romance, Germanic, and Persian ones. In each case, the name means "star."[1]

As a nickname, it is used as a short form of several names, including Esther, Estelle, Celeste, Leslie, Lesley, and Esmeralda.[1][2]

In the United States, the name reached its greatest popularity in the 1890s, peaking as the 139th most popular name for girls born during that decade.[3] By 2018, it was notable for being disproportionately used by Southerners and African Americans.[4]

People

Essie may refer to:

Women

Men

  • Essie Hollis (born 1955), American retired basketball player
  • Essie Sakhai, Iranian-born British expert on Persian carpets and oriental rugs

Fictional characters

gollark: Random bodging? It's what I do.
gollark: YouTube videos? I'm sure there are text tutorials around.
gollark: I find the dependency management pure evil, but it's pretty good generally what with the vast quantity of libraries.
gollark: I see. Any particular reason?
gollark: Learning Python or another programming language is possibly a good thing to do if you have... time and some interest, I guess. You can automate some annoying tasks, bodge together scripts to do whatever random stuff you want, demonstrate your 1337 h4xx0r abilities to friends by, I don't know, printing "Hello World" in a terminal, that sort of thing.

References

  1. "Essie name meaning". SheKnows. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  2. Norman, Tessa (July 2003). A World of Baby Names. New York: Perigree. p. 358. ISBN 0-399-52894-6.
  3. Glassman, Genny (9 March 2018). "35 Old-Fashioned Nicknames for Girls That Make Charming First Names". TheStir. CafeMom. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  4. "Essie National Statistics". MyNameStats. Informateur. 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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