Essa

Where Essa comes from

Essa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #5,059 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1986
    Essa Ismail Rashed born
    Kenyan-born long distance runner for Qatar
  4. 1992
    Essa Al-Zenkawi born
    Kuwaiti discus thrower
  5. 2022
    Peak, #2,438
    57 babies named Essa — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Essa Al-Zenkawi · Kuwaiti discus thrower, born 1992
  • Essa Ismail Rashed · Kenyan-born long distance runner for Qatar, born 1986
  • Essa Obaid · bodybuilder, born 1979
  • Essa Moosa · former Supreme Court judge in South Africa, 1936–2017
  • Essa al-Busmait · Bahraini sailor, born 1956

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.