Esai
#1,591 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Esai has been given to 2,478 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #1,591 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 119 recorded.
Babies named Esai, 2025
1 in 31,000
Esai over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Esai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 31,000
- 107 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 16,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,591
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 21,477 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Esai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 21,477 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Esais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Esai was born before 2009 — so the typical Esai is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,478
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (763).
Is Esai 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
- −85
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +260
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +583
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.70×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 89.9%
- Peak was 2024 (119)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.2% average annual change
Spellings of Esai
Esai is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 34.0% against Esai's 0.29%.
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.
Where Esai is used
Across 2016–2025, Esai was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 17,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 11,111
- 2California1 in 11,111
- 3Texas1 in 11,111
- 4Colorado1 in 14,286
- 5New Mexico1 in 14,286
- 6Nevada1 in 25,000
- 7Florida1 in 50,000
- 8Georgia1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Esai around the world
Where Esai 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.
- France1999–2017#4,513in 2017
- Canada2022–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia1991–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Esai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Esai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Esai
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Esai, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Esai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.