Essa

Where Essa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Essa.

  • Vowel-ended
Essa through the years
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #5,059 among boys with 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 on, more boys have.
  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, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.