# Esa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/esa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 768 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 659 / 109 (14% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,209, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | 7,122 |
| 1981 | 5 | 10,893 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,256 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,014 |
| 2012 | 7 | 13,947 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,179 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,065 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,352 |
| 2019 | 8 | 11,691 |
| 2020 | 6 | 13,970 |
| 2021 | 8 | 11,438 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,534 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,544 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11,421 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,299 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 6,348 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5,101 |
| 2013 | 28 | 3,688 |
| 2014 | 29 | 3,642 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,594 |
| 2016 | 37 | 3,126 |
| 2017 | 33 | 3,401 |
| 2018 | 34 | 3,318 |
| 2019 | 40 | 3,009 |
| 2020 | 46 | 2,701 |
| 2021 | 48 | 2,665 |
| 2022 | 34 | 3,429 |
| 2023 | 51 | 2,590 |
| 2024 | 42 | 2,972 |
| 2025 | 52 | 2,546 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 62 | 565 |
| 2012 | 66 | 549 |
| 2013 | 44 | 730 |
| 2014 | 60 | 592 |
| 2015 | 63 | 586 |
| 2016 | 67 | 558 |
| 2017 | 54 | 650 |
| 2018 | 64 | 580 |
| 2019 | 56 | 634 |
| 2020 | 59 | 601 |
| 2021 | 52 | 682 |
| 2022 | 61 | 606 |
| 2023 | 59 | 608 |
| 2024 | 68 | 560 |
| 2025 | 89 | 438 |

## People named Esa

- Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Esa Lindell, Finnish ice hockey player
- Esa Saario, Finnish actor
- Esa Keskinen, Finnish former ice hockey player
- Esa Pirnes, Finnish ice hockey player
- Esa Holopainen, Finnish musician
- Esa Pekonen, Finnish association football player and manager
- Esa Saarinen, Finnish philosopher

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.