Name Awesome

Ersa

Girls' name

Dew

Ersa has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ersa, 1934

1 in 415,000

Ersa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0246818801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ersa: meaning, origin, and history

Dew

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ersa means

Ersa means “Dew”, associated with Hérsa.

Origin, language, and formation

Ersa is used in English.

Ersa comes through Ancient Greek Ἕρσα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ersa is pronounced /ˈɜɹsə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 girls were recorded with the name Ersa between 1904 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,977 in 1904.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ersa?

Ersa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934
1 in 415,000
5 of 2,076,780 births
Among girls only
1 in 209,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1934
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,904 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ersa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,904 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ersa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ersas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ersa was born before 1920 — so the typical Ersa is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ersa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (8)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,977
1904

Spellings of Ersa

Ersa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 19.1% against Ersa's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ersa around the world

Where Ersa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    2017–2017
    #7,574
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ersa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,977
1904
Peak year
1919
8 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1934
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ersa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

UrsaIrsaDorsaErselMarsaErsulaErsiliaErsieYrsaTirsaMirsaLarsaTiersaTersaErsellThursaTearsaVersaErsheenThearsaErselleKiersaThersa

Sibling names for Ersa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Ersa

Top names of 1919, Ersa's peak yearThe 1910s in fullOther names that peaked in 1904Girls' names starting with E