Esai — #1516 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Esai

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,368 babies named Esai between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Esai currently holds the #1516 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 117 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Esai performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 763 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Esai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 557 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Esai in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Esai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,368 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.