Meaning not yet researched.
Esai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 107 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,259 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,259 in 2002; #1,591 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,591 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,259.
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Esai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 107 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,259 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 119 (2024).
In 2025, 107 US boys were named Esai, making it the 1,591st most common boys’ name of the year, down 85 places from #1,506 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 119 boys named Esai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,259, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 119, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,174 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esai in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 14 babies. In all, 2,478 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 763 babies named Esai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 804 US boys were named Esai; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,963 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esai ranked highest in California in 2025, at #889 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isai (7,385 babies since 1880), Isa (6,575 babies since 1880), Esau (2,976 babies since 1880) and Isaih (1,510 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Esai 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #889 | #1,393 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,078 | #1,569 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,353 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 107 | #1,591 |
| 2024 | — | — | 119 | #1,506 |
| 2023 | — | — | 105 | #1,642 |
| 2022 | — | — | 87 | #1,842 |
| 2021 | — | — | 67 | #2,136 |
| 2020 | — | — | 80 | #1,851 |
| 2019 | — | — | 73 | #2,006 |
| 2018 | — | — | 59 | #2,289 |
| 2017 | — | — | 58 | #2,281 |
| 2016 | — | — | 49 | #2,564 |
| 2015 | — | — | 63 | #2,174 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,161 |
| 2013 | — | — | 70 | #1,975 |
| 2012 | — | — | 70 | #2,010 |
| 2011 | — | — | 75 | #1,876 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,128 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,017 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,921 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,020 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,045 |
| 2005 | — | — | 95 | #1,508 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,659 |
| 2003 | — | — | 104 | #1,328 |
| 2002 | — | — | 108 | #1,259 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,094 |
| 2000 | — | — | 50 | #2,028 |
| 1999 | — | — | 62 | #1,700 |
| 1998 | — | — | 60 | #1,708 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,632 |
| 1996 | — | — | 72 | #1,435 |
| 1995 | — | — | 78 | #1,329 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,146 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,081 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,381 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,873 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #2,995 |
| 1989 | — | — | 34 | #2,078 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,961 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,396 |
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).