Esha
Esha was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,912 among girls’ names; 1,926 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Esha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esha?
#4,912 among girls’ names, 2025
Esha fell from #3,040 in 2015 to #4,912 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.4 to 16.8 per million.
184 babies in 2002, the peak
Esha peaked in 2002, when 184 girls were given it, #1,130 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,912 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,805 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,859 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,834 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,017 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,197 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,949 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,632 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,402 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,485 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #3,040 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,938 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,668 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,841 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,620 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,707 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,491 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,464 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,446 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,077 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,873 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,418 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 184 | #1,130 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,100 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,988 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,485 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,597 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,077 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,794 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,161 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,175 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,918 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,901 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,378 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,600 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,437 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,497 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,907 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,550 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,501 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Esha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esha, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,926 Americans ever recorded as Esha. The median Esha alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,310 people named Esha (2,277 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,750 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 176 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 505 |
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 Esha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,000 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,463 | 0.6× |
Where Esha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Esha is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 2.3 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 girls’ 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 Esha 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,318 babies since 1880, Esha is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 67 babies (40%), the second 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 Esha
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 Esha and names like it
- Compare Esha and EeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEsha peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esha since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Esha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Esha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.