Meaning not yet researched.
Esa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,546 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 88% of babies named Esa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,546 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Esa: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,546 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 52 (2025).
In 2025, 52 US boys were named Esa, making it the 2,546th most common boys’ name of the year, up 426 places from #2,972 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 42 boys named Esa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,546, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 52. For comparison, it was #4,594 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Esa, making it the 12,299th most common girls’ name of the year, down 878 places from #11,421 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Esa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,254, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 8, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esa in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 768 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 317 babies named Esa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 417 US boys were named Esa; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esa ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,628 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isaiah (254,710 babies since 1880), Asa (23,067 babies since 1880), Isaias (18,644 babies since 1880) and Isa (6,575 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Esad are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Esad (9).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Esa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,628 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,148 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,299 | 52 | #2,546 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,421 | 42 | #2,972 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,544 | 51 | #2,590 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,534 | 34 | #3,429 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,438 | 48 | #2,665 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,970 | 46 | #2,701 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,691 | 40 | #3,009 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,352 | 34 | #3,318 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,401 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,065 | 37 | #3,126 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,594 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,179 | 29 | #3,642 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,688 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,947 | 18 | #5,101 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,348 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,896 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,548 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #7,873 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,372 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,014 | 9 | #8,208 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,776 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,071 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,256 | 6 | #9,750 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,767 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,007 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,537 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,577 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,846 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,434 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,893 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,122 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,340 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,254 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).