Esli — #9787 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Esli

The Social Security Administration has registered 435 babies named Esli between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Esli currently holds the #9787 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Esli is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 150 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Esli performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 173 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Esli shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Esli in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Esli 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 435 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.