Essa — #3174 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Essa

The Social Security Administration has registered 708 babies named Essa between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Essa currently holds the #3174 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 57 babies received it in a single year. Essa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 216 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Essa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 305 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Essa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Essa in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Essa 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 708 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.