Esa

What Esa means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Esa yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #438 vs #2,539 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Esa?

US: Rising: up from #4545 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #586 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 52 boys got the name (#2539 that year). First in the US records in 1989.

How common

• About 1 in 32,848 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,055 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.07 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.04 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Esa is #2539 in the US and #438 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 88.1% of US babies named Esa were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Asa622 US · 83 E&W
• Isa253 US · 207 E&W
• Isai186 US
• Issa98 US · 59 E&W
• Esai107 US
• Essa51 US · 46 E&W
• Asai71 US
• Eisa12 US · 29 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Esa

Boys

• Beckett#141Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1992, with 6 babies
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Karter#270Variant of Carter, meaning “son of Arthur”^*
• Messiah#207Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 5 babies
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*

For a sister

• Evie#270Editor’s note Up from #510 in 2015 to #270 in 2025 in the US
• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Leia#297Editor’s note Up from #420 in 2015 to #297 in 2025 in the US
• Elliana#139Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #301 in 2015, #139 in 2025
• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Esa’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.