Esai
Esai was given to 107 boys in 2025, #1,591 among boys’ names; 2,478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Esai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esai?
#1,591 among boys’ names, 2025
Esai rose from #2,174 in 2015 to #1,591 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.9 to 62.6 per million.
119 babies in 2024, the peak
Esai peaked in 2024, when 119 boys were given it, #1,506 among boys’ names. The 107 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,591 | 62.6 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,506 | 69.1 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,642 | 61.4 |
| 2022 | 87 | #1,842 | 49.8 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,135 | 38.3 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,851 | 46.3 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,005 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,288 | 32.5 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,280 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,563 | 25.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,174 | 32.9 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,159 | 32.8 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,974 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,009 | 36.9 |
| 2011 | 75 | #1,875 | 39.5 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,127 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,016 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,921 | 36.8 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,020 | 33.2 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,044 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 95 | #1,507 | 47.6 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,656 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,327 | 52.6 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,256 | 55.6 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,090 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,024 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 62 | #1,697 | 32.3 |
| 1998 | 60 | #1,705 | 31.4 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,629 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,433 | 38.0 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,324 | 41.0 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,140 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,075 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,375 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,866 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,989 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,072 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,956 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,391 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Esai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esai, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,478 Americans ever recorded as Esai. The median Esai alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,654 people named Esai (22 women and girls, 1,632 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,908 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 993 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Esai born?
The states with the most babies named Esai are California, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #889 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,078 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,353 | 0.5× |
Where Esai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Esai is most over-represented in Texas: since 1987 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Esai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,168 babies since 1880, Esai is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 408 babies (26%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Esai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Esai and names like it
- Compare Esai and EsauBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEsai peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esai since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Esai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Esai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.