Eshal

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Eshal: Recorded every year since 2004, it reached #443 in 2012, and it stood at #1,230 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#443highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#985
2005	#1012
2006	#1087
2007	#764
2008	#632
2009	#543
2010	#485
2011	#474
2012	#443
2013	#509
2014	#640
2015	#760
2016	#994
2017	#814
2018	#952
2019	#897
2020	#1397
2021	#1069
2022	#910
2023	#1325
2024	#1230

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2004 to 2024.

In 2022: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #910 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #985 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #443 among girls in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 2004–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1230 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Eshal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 1,024 births with the name.

Eshal 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.

Eshal'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	#985 (2004)	#443 (2012)	#1230 (2024)	21 of 21	1,024 (2004–2024)	102 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#747 (2022)	#747 (2022)	6 of 14	21 (2009–2022)	4 (2011)

Eshal 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 Eshal in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	249	6 of 10	42
2010sbusiest	632	10 of 10	63
2020s	143	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 63 births a year.

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

Eshal 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 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #443 in England and Wales in 2012.

Eshal'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	#1230	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1325	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#897	40	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#952	38	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#760	51	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#640	63	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#509	82	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#443	102	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#474	90	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#485	83	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#543	72	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#632	59	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#764	43	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1087	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1012	25	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#985	25	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	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 2004 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #443, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 102 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 5 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.

Eshaal · #391, 21y
Eshaan · #878, 24y
Eshan · #419, 28y
Esila · #2757, 11y

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.

Celestine · #443, 21y
Emanuela · #443, 26y
Rares · #443, 17y
Bodie · #442, 24y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Evanas · #443, 15y
Rares · #443, 17y
Veda · #443, 18y
Aimee-Rose · #444, 12y

Eshal was ranked #443 in England and Wales · Girls 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.

Eshal 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 Eshal without appearing here.

Eshal moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1397 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1069 and #2499.
Marie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1325 and #1087 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1230 and #1894.
Shania Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1397 and #1397 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1069 and #1628.
Jenna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1069 and #1039 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #910 and #1452.

Moved ahead of Eshal

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #897 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1397 and #460.
Mari Compare
In 2022 they stood at #910 and #1180 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1325 and #921.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #760 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #994 and #768.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #485 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #474 and #261.

Moved the opposite way to Eshal

Blake Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eshal went from #764 to #1230 while Blake went from #5201 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eshal went from #632 to #1230 while Ezra went from #3397 to #1302.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eshal went from #485 to #1230 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eshal went from #509 to #1230 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.

Moved the same way as Eshal

Teddy Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eshal went from #509 to #1230 and Teddy from #2460 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #443 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Eshal

Eshal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Eshal across 2 official records

Eshal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Eshal at a glance

Eshal across 2 official records

Eshal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Eshal

Eshal and the names beside it

Eshal moved ahead of

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