Esha

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Esha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #285 in 2002, and it stood at #1,491 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#285highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#1287
1998	#1979
1999	#1970
2000	#897
2001	#550
2002	#285
2003	#362
2004	#351
2005	#328
2006	#368
2007	#385
2008	#487
2009	#500
2010	#567
2011	#652
2012	#712
2013	#900
2014	#779
2015	#819
2016	#1112
2017	#1296
2018	#1035
2019	#1218
2020	#1397
2021	#1569
2022	#1452
2023	#1469
2024	#1491

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2009: #500 among girls in England and Wales, #893 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #285 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Esha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,509 births with the name.

Esha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Esha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#285 (2002)	#1491 (2024)	29 of 29	1,509 (1996–2024)	133 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#842 (2007)	#842 (2007)	#893 (2009)	2 of 3	6 (2007–2009)	3 (2007)

Esha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Esha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	36	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	926	10 of 10	93
2010s	443	10 of 10	44
2020s	104	5 of 10	21

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 93 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2001 and 2002, when recorded births rose by 82, from 51 to 133.

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

Esha 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #285 in England and Wales in 2002.

Esha'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	female	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1452	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1569	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1218	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1296	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1112	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#819	46	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#779	50	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#712	57	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#652	61	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#567	70	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#500	81	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#385	109	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#368	113	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#328	124	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#351	109	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#362	102	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#285	133	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#550	51	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #285, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 133 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 11 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 2 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.

Imaan · #285, 29y
Kathrin · #285, 27y
Sion · #285, 30y
Farrell · #286, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Imaan · #285, 29y
Santiago · #285, 30y
Sion · #285, 30y
Charly · #284, 27y

Esha was ranked #285 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. 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.

Esha 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 Esha without appearing here.

Esha moved ahead of

Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1970 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #897 and #3912.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1287 and #3824.
Evan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1287 and #3174.
Lynette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1287 and #3174.

Moved ahead of Esha

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #652 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #712 and #284.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #567 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #652 and #261.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #819 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1112 and #768.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1397 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1569 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Esha

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esha went from #550 to #1491 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Esha went from #2350 to #1035 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.
Helene Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Esha went from #2350 to #1035 while Helene went from #1168 to #4684.
Jayden Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Esha went from #2350 to #1035 while Jayden went from #2350 to #5666.

Moved the same way as Esha

Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esha went from #897 to #1491 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Esha went from #285 to #1491 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #285 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Esha

Esha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Esha across 2 official records

Esha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Esha at a glance

Esha across 2 official records

Esha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Names published alongside Esha

Esha and the names beside it

Esha moved ahead of

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