A modern spelling of Esmé from Old French, meaning beloved or esteemed, used as a refined feminine variant.
Ezmie is a variant spelling of Esmée or Esme, a name with a layered and romantic history stretching across French, Persian, and Scottish traditions. The French esmé is the past participle of esmer, meaning 'to esteem' or 'to love' — giving the name a meaning of 'beloved' or 'esteemed one.' This French form was carried into Scotland in the sixteenth century by Esmé Stuart, the French-educated cousin of King James VI of Scotland, who became the first Duke of Lennox and one of the great court favorites of the Jacobean era.
D. Salinger published his celebrated short story 'For Esmé — with Love and Squalor' in 1950. Salinger's Esmé is a precociously intelligent English girl who befriends a traumatized American soldier, and the story's warmth and precision gave the name a generation of literary associations.
It became a name for readers, for thoughtful parents, for families who wanted something uncommon but clearly English-language. The Ezmie spelling adds a distinctly modern, playful energy to this history — softening the French-accented Esmée while preserving the name's essential sound and soul. As with many creative respellings, it transforms an inherited name into something slightly more personal, a small act of individuation. Ezmie carries all of Esme's romantic history while signaling that the child who bears it will chart her own course through it.