Meaning not yet researched.
Eshal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,565 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,565 in 2011; #4,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eshal in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,484 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,565.
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Eshal: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,565 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 71 (2010).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Eshal, making it the 4,484th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,547 places from #7,031 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 16 girls named Eshal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,565, reached in 2011. The most girls given the name in a single year was 71, in 2010. For comparison, it was #5,531 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eshal in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 38 babies. In all, 857 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 482 babies named Eshal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 272 US girls were named Eshal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eshaal (805 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ishaal and Eshell 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: Ishaal (6), Eshell (5).
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 Eshal 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 | 31 | #4,484 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,031 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,031 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,032 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,769 | — | — |
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).