Esa

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Esa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Esa: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #549 in 2012, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#549highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#1578
1998	#2419
1999	#1664
2000	#2142
2001	#1949
2002	#1253
2003	#1188
2004	#815
2005	#1047
2006	#863
2007	#952
2008	#836
2009	#737
2010	#589
2011	#565
2012	#549
2013	#730
2014	#592
2015	#586
2016	#558
2017	#650
2018	#580
2019	#634
2020	#601
2021	#682
2022	#606
2023	#608
2024	#560

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #560 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #1578 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #549 among boys in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #560 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Esa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Esa in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000s	210	10 of 10	21
2010s	593	10 of 10	59
2020sbusiest	299	5 of 10	60

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 60 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Esa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #549 in England and Wales in 2012.

Esa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#560	68	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#608	59	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#606	61	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#682	52	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#601	59	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#634	56	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#580	64	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#650	54	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#558	67	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#586	63	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#592	60	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#549	66	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#565	62	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#589	57	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#737	40	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#836	33	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#863	28	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1047	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#815	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1188	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #549, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Luella · #547, 27y
Prisha · #547, 25y
Nila · #544, 26y
Leya · #555, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Raees · #549, 29y
Hakeem · #550, 29y
Marlena · #550, 26y
Persephone · #550, 27y

Esa was ranked #549 in England and Wales · Boys in 2012. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Esa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Esa without appearing here.

Esa moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #3225.
Graeme Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1595 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #2636.
Isak Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #2636.
Tor Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1746 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #2636.

Moved ahead of Esa

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1578 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2419 and #924.
Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #815 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1047 and #615.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #863 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #952 and #538.
Arlo Compare
In 2004 they stood at #815 and #875 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1047 and #766.

Moved the opposite way to Esa

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Esa

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Esa went from #1578 to #560 and Archie from #141 to #10.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #549 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Esa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Esa at a glance

Esa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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