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Esha

#4,912 in 2025Girls' name

Wish, desire

Esha has been given to 1,926 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,912 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 184 recorded.

Babies named Esha, 2025

1 in 123,000

Esha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esha: meaning, origin, and history

Wish, desire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esha means

Esha means “wish, desire”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,926 girls were recorded with the name Esha between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 184 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,130 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,197 in 2020 to #4,912 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,040 in 2015 to #4,912 in 2025.

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.

How common is Esha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,912
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esha 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 2025 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esha was born before 2006 — so the typical Esha is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,926
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Choose a decade

2000s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (934).

Is Esha 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
−107
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−715
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,872
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.7%
Peak was 2002 (184)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,130
2002

Spellings of Esha

Esha is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 29.7% against Esha's 0.07%.

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 Esha is used

Across 1910–2025, Esha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 107,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Esha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Esha around the world

Where Esha 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
    1996–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2007
    #633
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    2007–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • France
    2003–2017
    #7,856
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Esha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,912
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 715
Best rank ever
#1,130
2002
Peak year
2002
184 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,926
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Esha

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

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