Meaning not yet researched.
Esau: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #926 in 1890.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #926 in 1890; #3,205 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esau in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,205 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #926.
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Esau: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #926 in 1890 · most boys in one year: 82 (2007).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Esau, making it the 3,205th most common boys’ name of the year, down 140 places from #3,065 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 40 boys named Esau in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #926, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,987 in 2015 and #1,626 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esau in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 2,976 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 644 babies named Esau.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 370 US boys were named Esau; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Isai (7,385 babies since 1880), Isa (6,575 babies since 1880), Esai (2,478 babies since 1880) and Essa (986 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eesah 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: Eesah (21).
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 Esau in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,205 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,065 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,496 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,887 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,320 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,035 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,442 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,123 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,146 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,596 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,987 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,857 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,146 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,608 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,597 |
| 2010 | — | — | 57 | #2,271 |
| 2009 | — | — | 59 | #2,236 |
| 2008 | — | — | 72 | #1,972 |
| 2007 | — | — | 82 | #1,785 |
| 2006 | — | — | 73 | #1,864 |
| 2005 | — | — | 63 | #1,992 |
| 2004 | — | — | 63 | #1,940 |
| 2003 | — | — | 55 | #2,062 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,265 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,897 |
| 2000 | — | — | 73 | #1,616 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,366 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,288 |
| 1997 | — | — | 39 | #2,208 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,120 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,464 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,879 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,021 |
| 1992 | — | — | 37 | #2,103 |
| 1991 | — | — | 35 | #2,108 |
| 1990 | — | — | 44 | #1,787 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,905 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,053 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,497 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,626 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,376 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,529 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,516 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,132 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,961 |
| 1980 | — | — | 27 | #2,020 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,121 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,597 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,590 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,865 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,673 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,856 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,254 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,222 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,755 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,661 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,929 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,192 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,396 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,074 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,398 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,347 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,583 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,457 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,743 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,333 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,295 |
| 1957 | — | — | 22 | #1,726 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,118 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,248 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,145 |
| 1953 | — | — | 15 | #2,063 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,575 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,745 |
| 1950 | — | — | 21 | #1,626 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,721 |
| 1948 | — | — | 16 | #1,900 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,806 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,839 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,876 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,837 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,317 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,646 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,653 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,931 |
| 1939 | — | — | 22 | #1,429 |
| 1938 | — | — | 13 | #2,013 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,934 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,907 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,677 |
| 1934 | — | — | 22 | #1,472 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,131 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,671 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,952 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,498 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,071 |
| 1928 | — | — | 18 | #1,854 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,568 |
| 1926 | — | — | 19 | #1,812 |
| 1925 | — | — | 22 | #1,650 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,707 |
| 1923 | — | — | 18 | #1,894 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,783 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,090 |
| 1920 | — | — | 17 | #1,984 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,184 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,932 |
| 1917 | — | — | 19 | #1,716 |
| 1916 | — | — | 24 | #1,427 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,097 |
| 1914 | — | — | 14 | #1,710 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,523 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,112 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,597 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,189 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,269 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,132 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #964 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,081 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #983 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,150 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #994 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,093 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #926 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,018 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #957 |
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).