Esha
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 184 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,926since 1975
Esha over time
Rank among girls' names. Esha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2017 | #3,387 | 46 |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,661 | 66 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #2,614 | 68 |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 |
| 2007 | #2,457 | 76 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 |
| 2005 | #2,073 | 90 |
| 2004 | #1,871 | 101 |
| 2003 | #1,416 | 140 |
| 2002 | #1,129 | 184 |
| 2001 | #2,096 | 79 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
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| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
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| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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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.
Where Esha is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#667 · 1 in 4,220
- Massachusetts#695 · 1 in 5,034
- Virginia#792 · 1 in 5,148
- Pennsylvania#903 · 1 in 7,065
- Illinois#932 · 1 in 6,299
Best ever in a state: #273 in New Jersey, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #667 | 10 | 1 in 4,220 |
| Massachusetts | #695 | 6 | 1 in 5,034 |
| Virginia | #792 | 7 | 1 in 5,148 |
| Pennsylvania | #903 | 8 | 1 in 7,065 |
| Illinois | #932 | 11 | 1 in 6,299 |
| California | #1,077 | 28 | 1 in 8,095 |
| New York | #1,125 | 12 | 1 in 8,175 |
| Georgia | #1,215 | 6 | 1 in 8,290 |
| Ohio | #1,303 | 5 | 1 in 11,656 |
| Florida | #1,422 | 7 | 1 in 11,403 |
| Texas | #2,214 | 7 | 1 in 22,582 |
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See more about Esha
- 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)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2002 at #1,129 (184 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 48.5% of all girls named Esha (934) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #4,842 (1979) | #6,765 |
| 1980s | 75 | #5,312 (1987) | #7,232 |
| 1990s | 186 | #4,370 (1997) | #5,369 |
| 2000s | 934 | #1,129 (2002) | #2,171 |
| 2010s | 535 | #2,614 (2011) | #3,212 |
| 2020s | 168 | #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 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 13,051 of them was named Esha, which outranked 92.3% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,411Jaylah141
- #1,411Mason141
- #1,411Vicky141
- #1,416Esha140
- #1,416Charlee140
- #1,416Cinthia140
- #1,416Diya140
- #1,422Amaria139
- #1,422Amiah139
- #1,422Arleth139
Tied with 5 names at #1,416; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.