Meaning not yet researched.
Essa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,449 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,449 in 2022; #2,581 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Essa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,581 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,449.
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Essa: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,449 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 57 (2022).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Essa, making it the 2,581st most common boys’ name of the year, up 546 places from #3,127 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 39 boys named Essa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,449, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #3,388 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Essa, making it the 9,656th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,923 places from #12,579 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 girls named Essa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #962, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 15, in 2023. For comparison, it was #13,444 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Essa in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 986 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 364 babies named Essa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 433 US boys were named Essa; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Essa ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,006 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Issa (3,217 babies since 1880), Esa (768 babies since 1880), Isa (6,575 babies since 1880) and Esau (2,976 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 Essa in the open dataset we use.
Essa is listed as a nickname for Vanessa.
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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,006 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,173 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,842 | #1,518 |
| California | 6 | #2,278 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,367 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,656 | 51 | #2,581 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,579 | 39 | #3,127 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,372 | 48 | #2,708 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,757 | 57 | #2,449 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,172 | 35 | #3,321 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,142 | 34 | #3,293 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,972 | 54 | #2,469 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,788 | 35 | #3,262 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,575 | 45 | #2,726 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,247 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,444 | 33 | #3,388 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,591 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,390 | 24 | #4,095 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,671 | 21 | #4,586 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,406 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,822 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,330 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,389 | 15 | #5,860 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,372 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #8,966 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,528 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,332 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,390 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,217 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,092 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,670 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,371 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,244 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,539 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,548 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,170 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,746 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,118 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,308 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,568 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,289 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,563 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,952 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,460 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,195 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,224 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,038 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #962 | — | — |
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).