Essa

maleStatistical record

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

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

Essa: Recorded every year since 1998, its highest recorded position is #773, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#773highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2019

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#4686

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2419 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #773 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #773 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Essa 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 Essa in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	96	10 of 10	10
2010s	272	10 of 10	27
2020sbusiest	178	5 of 10	36

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 36 births a year.

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

Essa appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #773 in England and Wales in 2024.

Essa'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	#773	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#987	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#862	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#854	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#898	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#874	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#851	36	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#968	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#946	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1035	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1367	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1398	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1033	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #773, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
27 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#773position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
44births registered in its largest year, 202425 to 49 births →

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.

Esraa · #2178, 10y
Esrom · #2954, 13y
Essam · #2470, 12y
Essie · #621, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Ranveer · #774, 27y
Cadi · #776, 28y
Nayla · #776, 28y
Evie-May · #779, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Mehtab · #773, 20y
Ranveer · #774, 27y
Sunday · #774, 11y
Musab · #771, 29y

Essa was ranked #773 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Essa 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 Essa without appearing here.

Essa moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2211 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1156 and #3687.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2211 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1156 and #3687.
Anders Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2282 and #2282 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1156 and #3158.
Henrik Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2211 and #1885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1156 and #3158.

Moved ahead of Essa

Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1347.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2578 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1851 and #1190.
Filip Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2097 and #1664.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2097 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #2142.

Moved the opposite way to Essa

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 while Aaron went from #31 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 while Alan went from #196 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 while Alex went from #46 to #171.

Moved the same way as Essa

Albie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 and Albie from #716 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 and Alfred from #174 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Essa went from #2419 to #773 and Archie from #120 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #773 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Essa

Essa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Essa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Essa appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Essa at a glance

Essa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Essa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Essa

Essa and the names beside it

Essa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Essa

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