Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Esad isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Esad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 9
- 9 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 448 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Esad’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Esad has a conventional equivalent in the Kurdish form ESED. In Turkish usage, Esad as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Assad.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Esad
- Essad ToptaniOttoman army officer and Prime Minister of Albania from 1914 to 19161863–1920
- Esad MekuliAlbanian poet and scholar (1916–1993)
- Esad RibićCroatian comic book artist and animator (born 1972)
- Esad RazićSwedish footballerborn 1982
- Esad HasanovićSerbian bicycle racerborn 1985
- Esad PlaviBosnia and Herzegovina singerborn 1965
- Esad ErbiliKurdish writer (1847–1931)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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