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Essa

#2,581 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Alternate transcription of Isa

Essa has been given to 986 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #2,581 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 57 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.

Babies named Essa, 2025

1 in 65,000

Essa over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Essa over time

In 2025, Essa went to 16% girls and 84% boys.

18852025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Essa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Isa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Essa means

Essa is a alternate transcription of Isa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Essa → Isa → Isabel. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements Elishéva.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 760 boys were recorded with the name Essa between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,448 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,291 in 2020 to #2,581 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,387 in 2015 to #2,581 in 2025.

In the United States, 226 girls were recorded with the name Essa between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2017; its best national rank was #962 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,137 in 2020 to #9,653 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,439 in 2015 to #9,653 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.

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How common is Essa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,581
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Essa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Essa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Essas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Essa was born before 2017 — so the typical Essa is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
760
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (305).

Is Essa 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
+544
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+710
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+806
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.5%
Peak was 2022 (57)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,448
2022

Spellings of Essa

Essa is not the most common spelling — Jesse is, with 66.3% against Essa's 0.12%.

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 Essa is used

Across 1910–2025, Essa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 312,933 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 in —

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. Essa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Essa around the world

Where Essa 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
    1998–2025
    #745
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2020
    #4,787
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Essa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,581
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 710
Best rank ever
#2,448
2022
Peak year
2022
57 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
760
Count in 2025
51

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,653
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 516
Best rank ever
#962
1885
Peak year
2017
15 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
226
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Essa

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

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Sibling names for Essa

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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