Esai

#1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births

Peak · boys
2002 · 108 births
Debut · boys
14 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,478
since 1987

Esai over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Esai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202021peak #1,258, 2002boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#1,585107
2024#1,503119
2023#1,640105
2022#1,83987
2021#2,13467
2020#1,84980
2019#2,00173
2018#2,28259
2017#2,27058
2016#2,55149
2015#2,16963
2014#2,15463
2013#1,96470
2012#2,00370
2011#1,86675
2010#2,11863
2009#2,01069
2008#1,91675
2007#2,01669
2006#2,03765
2005#1,50695
2004#1,65378
2003#1,324104
2002#1,258108
2001#2,08650
2000#2,01550
1999#1,69262
1998#1,70060
1997#1,62862
1996#1,43472
1995#1,32778
1994#3,10922
1993#4,02015
1992#3,33819
1991#3,81315
1990#2,95221
1989#2,06834
1988#1,94933
1987#3,33914
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five boys were named Esai! It came in at #3,339, and was given to 14 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1987, when fewer than 15 boys a year got the name.

See more about Esai
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 82 spots since 2024 (#1,503#1,585)
  • 264 spots since 2020 (#1,849#1,585)
  • 584 spots since 2015 (#2,169#1,585)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2002 at #1,258 (108 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,478
  • Highest: 1 in 14,478 boys born in 2024 were named Esai (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 15,963 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,258 in 2002, was only 1 in 17,977 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 30.8% of all boys named Esai (763) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s81#1,949 (1988)#2,452
1990s426#1,327 (1995)#2,501
2000s763#1,258 (2002)#1,782
2010s643#1,866 (2011)#2,138
2020s565#1,503 (2024)#1,758

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Esai in 2021

boys
#2,134
67 births · 1 in 26,112 boys

Top boys' names in 2021

  1. #1Liam20,424
  2. #2Noah18,919
  3. #3Oliver14,713
  4. #4Elijah12,845
  5. #5James12,474
  6. #6William12,170
  7. #7Benjamin11,895
  8. #8Lucas11,584
  9. #9Henry11,370
  10. #10Theodore9,600
  11. #2,134Esai67
More about 2021

boys

1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 26,112 of them was named Esai, which outranked 84.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Esai
  1. #2,109Xion68
  2. #2,109Yanis68
  3. #2,109Zabdiel68
  4. #2,134Esai67
  5. #2,134Bennet67
  6. #2,134Dandre67
  7. #2,134Evian67
  8. #2,157Abir66
  9. #2,157Devansh66
  10. #2,157Drayden66

Tied with 22 names at #2,134; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 536Amiri#1,295#759
  2. 438Eliam#1,177#739
  3. 343Colter#972#629
  4. 333Ozzy#1,046#713
  5. 299Loyal#1,053#754
Fallers
  1. 352Jaxtyn#585#937
  2. 259Karsyn#698#957
  3. 231Xzavier#976#1,207
  4. 208Tristen#846#1,054
  5. 208Willie#992#1,200

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2021