Esra — #2783 US girls' name
595 babies named Esra in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 84% of names given to girls today.
35% of everyone ever named Esra was born in this single decade.
61 babies were named Esra in 2024 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Esra
The Social Security Administration has registered 595 babies named Esra between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Esra currently holds the #2783 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 61 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Esra performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 208 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Esra shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Esra in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Esra 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 595 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.
Esra at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Esra popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1982
- Peak year (2024)
- 61
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
Currently ranks #2783 among girls.
595 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2024 with 61 births in a single year.
Esra popularity over time — boys
26 total births recorded since 2020 (Esra as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Esra accounts for 4% of total recorded use across both genders.
Esra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 208 births that decade — 35% of Esra's all-time total
Esra decade highlights
- Peak decade 208 births
- Runner-up 179 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Esra's strongest decade
208 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Esra by state
Where Esra concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 28 | 4.7% |
| #2 | Texas | | 19 | 3.2% |
| #3 | New York | | 5 | 0.8% |
28 of 595 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 4.7% of nationwide
- Texas 3.2% of nationwide
- New York 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.