Esha

#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births

Peak · girls
2002 · 184 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,926
since 1975

Esha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Esha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201975peak #1,129, 2002girls
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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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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#4,87827
2024#4,77228
2023#3,83339
2022#5,79321
2021#5,95520
2020#4,16933
2019#4,90927
2018#3,61442
2017#3,38746
2016#3,46445
2015#3,02456
2014#2,92258
2013#2,66166
2012#2,83261
2011#2,61468
2010#2,69166
2009#2,48576
2008#2,77365
2007#2,45776
2006#2,43876
2005#2,07390
2004#1,871101
2003#1,416140
2002#1,129184
2001#2,09679
2000#2,97447
1999#4,44525
1998#4,63623
1997#4,37024
1996#5,53117
1995#5,01919
1994#5,71316
1993#7,03812
1992#7,06712
1991#5,00419
1990#4,86819
1989#8,0379
1988#7,6919
1987#5,31214
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1985#6,45710
1984#6,29110
1983#10,2755
1982#6,37110
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1980#7,4188
1979#4,84214
1978#6,3859
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five girls were named Esha! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Esha
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 106 spots since 2024 (#4,772#4,878)
  • 709 spots since 2020 (#4,169#4,878)
  • 1,854 spots since 2015 (#3,024#4,878)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2002 at #1,129 (184 births)
  • Births halved by 2005, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,766
  • Highest: 1 in 9,766 girls born in 2002 were named Esha (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 48.5% of all girls named Esha (934) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s28#4,842 (1979)#6,765
1980s75#5,312 (1987)#7,232
1990s186#4,370 (1997)#5,369
2000s934#1,129 (2002)#2,171
2010s535#2,614 (2011)#3,212
2020s168#3,833 (2023)#4,900

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

Esha in 1975

girls
#9,067
5 births · 1 in 291,572 girls

Top girls' names in 1975

  1. #1Jennifer58,190
  2. #2Amy32,254
  3. #3Heather24,301
  4. #4Melissa24,168
  5. #5Angela23,361
  6. #6Michelle22,665
  7. #7Kimberly20,257
  8. #8Lisa18,139
  9. #9Stephanie15,775
  10. #10Nicole14,275
  11. #9,067Esha5
More about 1975

girls

1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 291,572 of them was named Esha, which outranked 14.6% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Esha
  1. #7,984Zenda6
  2. #7,984Zona6
  3. #7,984Zsazsa6
  4. #9,067Esha5
  5. #9,067Aaren5
  6. #9,067Abel5
  7. #9,067Abraham5

Tied with 1,551 names at #9,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1974
Risers
  1. 1,732Pepper#2,683#951
  2. 1,666Mandie#2,396#730
  3. 1,140Tiana#1,772#632
  4. 779Lacy#1,486#707
  5. 719Lacey#1,284#565
Fallers
  1. 447Nia#672#1,119
  2. 429Alethea#716#1,145
  3. 404Cicely#608#1,012
  4. 307Elaina#994#1,301
  5. 303Cristin#938#1,241

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

See the top 100 for 1975