In 2025, 85 US boys were named Eesa, making it the 1,855th most common boys’ name of the year, up 191 places from #2,046 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 74 boys named Eesa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,855, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #3,176 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eesa in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 6 babies. In all, 911 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 435 babies named Eesa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 680 US boys were named Eesa; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,095 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eesa ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #824 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isa (6,575 babies since 1880), Issa (3,217 babies since 1880), Esau (2,976 babies since 1880) and Esai (2,478 babies since 1880).