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Eshe

Girls' name

Variant of Asha

Eshe has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1977, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Eshe, 2020

1 in 557,000

Eshe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eshe: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Asha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eshe means

Eshe is a variant of Asha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eshe is used in Swahili.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eshe → Asha. The family’s meaning is “hope, wish”, recorded in English with the source elements āśā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Asha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 62 girls were recorded with the name Eshe between 1977 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1977; its best national rank was #6,497 in 1977.

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 Eshe?

Eshe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eshe 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eshe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eshes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eshe was born before 1980 — so the typical Eshe is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
62
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Eshe 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 1977 (9)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,497
1977

Spellings of Eshe

Eshe is not the most common spelling — Ethel is, with 24.7% against Eshe'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.

Eshe around the world

Where Eshe 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
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Eshe 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
#6,497
1977
Peak year
1977
9 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
62
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eshe

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

EshikaAsheEshaniEshanaLasheCasheEshalEshaKasheTasheEshitaEshanviEshaalMarsheEshantiMosheSasheAysheEshterEshellPorsheLesheAnasheShe

Sibling names for Eshe

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

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