Esi

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Esi has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1979, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Esi, 2023

1 in 663,000

Esi over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esi means

Esi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Esi is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Esi between 1979 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1979; its best national rank was #8,297 in 1979.

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.

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How common is Esi?

Esi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Esi 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esi was born before 2008 — so the typical Esi is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 57.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 28; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Esi 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 1979 (7)
Years since peak: 46; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,297; 1979

Esi around the world

Where Esi 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
2000–2022
#5,670
in 2022
France
2023–2023
#6,676
in 2023

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.

Esi 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: #8,297; 1979
Peak year: 1979; 7 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 28
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Esi

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

Kalesi Aleesi Lesi Alesi Khalesi Esila Jesi Kesi Desi Yaresi Caleesi Frenesi Jenesi Kahleesi Genesi Kaleesi Akanesi Khaleesi

Sibling names for Esi

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

For a sister

Bambi Shanika Mellissa Latosha Adria Lani Malissa Lindy

For a brother

Delvin Leopoldo Jerod Cedrick Reggie Torrey Jed Wilfredo

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