Eshan
Eshan was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,756 among boys’ names; 1,214 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Eshan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eshan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eshan?
#4,756 among boys’ names, 2025
Eshan fell from #2,092 in 2015 to #4,756 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.0 to 12.3 per million.
84 babies in 2011, the peak
Eshan peaked in 2011, when 84 boys were given it, #1,741 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,756 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,117 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,376 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,900 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,614 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,589 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,260 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,815 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,074 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,486 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,092 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,407 | 27.6 |
| 2013 | 71 | #1,944 | 37.5 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,967 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 84 | #1,741 | 44.2 |
| 2010 | 76 | #1,885 | 39.6 |
| 2009 | 70 | #1,992 | 35.3 |
| 2008 | 76 | #1,905 | 37.3 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,386 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,355 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,246 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,754 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,154 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,823 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,163 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,446 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,118 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,831 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,383 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,294 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,081 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,556 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eshan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eshan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eshan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eshan, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,214 Americans ever recorded as Eshan. The median Eshan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,178 people named Eshan (9 women and girls, 1,169 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,088 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 685 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 493 |
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 Eshan born?
The states with the most babies named Eshan are California, New York and Texas, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 134 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 123 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 63 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 14 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Eshan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eshan is most over-represented in New York: since 1991 it was given 1.7 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 Eshan 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 2,767 babies since 1880, Eshan is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 64 babies (33%), 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 Eshan
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 Eshan and names like it
- Compare Eshan and EshaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEshan peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eshan since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Eshan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eshan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.