Esaias
Masculine · “the Lord is salvation”
Esaias is the Greek of Isaiah — the Lord is salvation — the prophet whose call comes in the year Uzziah died.
How old is the name Esaias?
Esaias first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Esaias is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Esaias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Esaias most popular?
Esaias peaked in 2024, reaching #2133 nationally. Today it ranks #2480, 347 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yesha Yahu to Esaias
The story of Esaias
Isaiah's call comes in the year King Uzziah died, with a vision of the temple filled and a coal touched to his lips. Greek and Latin bibles call him Esaias, which is why older English translations do too. The name appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
the Lord is salvation
Through Isaiah, from the Hebrew Yeshayahu — yesha, 'salvation', and Yahu, the divine name. The Septuagint gave Esaias, which Greek and Latin bibles kept. The Hebrew is transparent and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- yesha Yahu
- Yeshayahu
- Esaias
Related forms: Ἠσαΐας · Isaiah · Isaías
Pronouncing Esaias
ee-SY-us
Three syllables, stress in the middle. English Isaiah is eye-ZAY-uh.
Nicknames for Esaias
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1991
- Most boys named
- 202469 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2133reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −21.7%54 in 2025, from 69
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Esaias in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ἠσαΐας in Greek — transliteration
- Isaiah in English — related form
- Isaías in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Georgia.
Esaiass among us
people named Esaias are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 31,631 born in 2025 was named Esaias
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Esaias
- #2480
- Esaias on the 2025 chart
- #865
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Esaias went to 54 boys in 2025, but Ezaias is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 63, which makes it the 865th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,615 places above the chart.
- Esaias54
- Ezaias9
About 1 boy in 27,112 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 31,631 for Esaias itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Talib test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Esaias's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Talib climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Talib's path sketches the road Esaias is walking now.
Esaias sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Esaias is headed
Esaias looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 28% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Esaias beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Esaias in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the call vision is dated to the year a king died is a first-rate anchor.
- The Lord-is-salvation meaning is transparent and strong.
- It is genuinely distinctive in American use.
- Isaiah is what English speakers will recognize.
- The Greek and English forms are said quite differently.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Esaiass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Esaias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Esaias?
- Esaias is the most-used spelling in US records — 54 of the 63 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ezaias.
- How popular is the name Esaias in 2025?
- Esaias ranks #2480 among US boy names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Esaias?
- About 1 in every 31,631 US boys born in 2025 was named Esaias — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Esaias with classmates?
- Esaias will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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