Esai Boy
How popular is Esai?
#1,585 boy name in 2025
107 baby boys were named Esai in the US in 2025, making it the 1585th most popular boy name.
Esai popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,585 for boys (▼ 82 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 107 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+70% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,169 in 2015, #1,849 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (119 boys) |
| Highest rank | #1,255 in 2002 |
| First recorded | 1987 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Esai counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Esai family of names ranked #750 for boys in 2025 (#819 the year before), with 312 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Esai is most popular
Babies named Esai per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 0.2 per 1,000 (5 boys)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (96 boys)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (91 boys)
- Colorado: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 boys)
- Nevada: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 boys)
Esai by decade
Boy names about as popular as Esai
Questions
- Is Esai a boy or girl name?
- Esai is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Esai were boys.
- How popular is the name Esai?
- 107 baby boys were named Esai in the US in 2025, making it the 1585th most popular boy name.
- When was Esai most popular?
- Esai peaked in 2024, when 119 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,255 in 2002.
- How many people are named Esai?
- 2,478 babies have been named Esai in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,445 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 17.
- Where is Esai most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Esai was most common in New Mexico, at 0.2 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.