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Esaias

“Yahweh is salvation”

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Swedish

Origin: Biblical Hebrew
3 language contexts: Swedish Danish Finnish
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Esaias

Esaias is a masculine given name documented in Swedish, Danish and Finnish. English Wiktionary traces it to Biblical Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ via Ancient Greek, with the stated meaning “Yahweh is salvation”.

Biblical Hebrew origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “Yahweh is salvation”

From Ancient Greek Ἠσᾰΐᾱς (Ēsăḯās), from Biblical Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (yəšaʿyā́hū, literally “Yahweh is salvation”).

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Esaias is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Esaias’s connections around the world.

3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 54 boys (rank 2480).

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4 of 5 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Esaias

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 54; applications; Rank #2,480
Peak year: 2024; 69 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Esaias in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	5	8,236	observed
1992	5	8,435	observed
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	7	7,136	observed
1997	5	9,265	observed
1998	10	5,840	observed
1999	20	3,704	observed
2000	12	5,588	observed
2001	17	4,476	observed
2002	10	6,522	observed
2003	15	5,035	observed
2004	12	6,138	observed
2005	17	4,824	observed
2006	23	4,105	observed
2007	24	4,127	observed
2008	25	4,044	observed
2009	33	3,332	observed
2010	25	3,994	observed
2011	16	5,433	observed
2012	20	4,686	observed
2013	27	3,753	observed
2014	32	3,371	observed
2015	35	3,231	observed
2016	31	3,524	observed
2017	25	4,105	observed
2018	44	2,748	observed
2019	33	3,426	observed
2020	44	2,759	observed
2021	57	2,373	observed
2022	40	3,053	observed
2023	66	2,173	observed
2024	69	2,133	observed
2025	54	2,480	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Esaias” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Esaias— “salvation of the Lord”
Hezekiah meant strength of the Lord, and in the Greek became Ezekias. Ezekiel is like it, meaning God will strengthen. The great prophet who was the chief glory of Hezekiah’s reign was Isaiah (the salvation of the Lord), made by Greek translators into Esaias, and thence called by old French and English, Esaie, or Esay. The Russians, who have all the old prophetic names, have Eesaia; but it is not easy to account for the choice of Ysaie le Triste as the name of the child of…
Read the full historical passageShow shorter excerpt
Hezekiah meant strength of the Lord, and in the Greek became Ezekias. Ezekiel is like it, meaning God will strengthen. The great prophet who was the chief glory of Hezekiah’s reign was Isaiah (the salvation of the Lord), made by Greek translators into Esaias, and thence called by old French and English, Esaie, or Esay. The Russians, who have all the old prophetic names, have Eesaia; but it is not easy to account for the choice of Ysaie le Triste as the name of the child of Tristram and Yseulte in the romance that carried on their history to another generation, unless we suppose that Ysaie was supposed to be the masculine of Yseulte! the one being Hebrew, and meaning as above, the other Keltic, and meaning a sight.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section VIII (Later Israelite Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Esaias Tegnér
1782–1846
Swedish poet, professor and bishop (1782–1846)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Esaias van de Velde
1587–1630
Dutch landscape painter (1587-1630)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ossian Skiöld
1889–1961
Swedish hammer thrower (1889–1961)
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Esaias with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q19860310CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Esaias.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section VIII (Later Israelite Names)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Esaias

Biblical Hebrew origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “Yahweh is salvation”

From Ancient Greek Ἠσᾰΐᾱς (Ēsăḯās), from Biblical Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (yəšaʿyā́hū, literally “Yahweh is salvation”).

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Esaias is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Esaias’s connections around the world.

3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 54 boys (rank 2480).

Explore United States

4 of 5 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Esaias

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 54; applications; Rank #2,480
Peak year: 2024; 69 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Esaias in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	5	8,236	observed
1992	5	8,435	observed
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	7	7,136	observed
1997	5	9,265	observed
1998	10	5,840	observed
1999	20	3,704	observed
2000	12	5,588	observed
2001	17	4,476	observed
2002	10	6,522	observed
2003	15	5,035	observed
2004	12	6,138	observed
2005	17	4,824	observed
2006	23	4,105	observed
2007	24	4,127	observed
2008	25	4,044	observed
2009	33	3,332	observed
2010	25	3,994	observed
2011	16	5,433	observed
2012	20	4,686	observed
2013	27	3,753	observed
2014	32	3,371	observed
2015	35	3,231	observed
2016	31	3,524	observed
2017	25	4,105	observed
2018	44	2,748	observed
2019	33	3,426	observed
2020	44	2,759	observed
2021	57	2,373	observed
2022	40	3,053	observed
2023	66	2,173	observed
2024	69	2,133	observed
2025	54	2,480	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Esaias— “salvation of the Lord”
Hezekiah meant strength of the Lord, and in the Greek became Ezekias. Ezekiel is like it, meaning God will strengthen. The great prophet who was the chief glory of Hezekiah’s reign was Isaiah (the salvation of the Lord), made by Greek translators into Esaias, and thence called by old French and English, Esaie, or Esay. The Russians, who have all the old prophetic names, have Eesaia; but it is not easy to account for the choice of Ysaie le Triste as the name of the child of…
Read the full historical passageShow shorter excerpt
Hezekiah meant strength of the Lord, and in the Greek became Ezekias. Ezekiel is like it, meaning God will strengthen. The great prophet who was the chief glory of Hezekiah’s reign was Isaiah (the salvation of the Lord), made by Greek translators into Esaias, and thence called by old French and English, Esaie, or Esay. The Russians, who have all the old prophetic names, have Eesaia; but it is not easy to account for the choice of Ysaie le Triste as the name of the child of Tristram and Yseulte in the romance that carried on their history to another generation, unless we suppose that Ysaie was supposed to be the masculine of Yseulte! the one being Hebrew, and meaning as above, the other Keltic, and meaning a sight.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section VIII (Later Israelite Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Esaias Tegnér
1782–1846
Swedish poet, professor and bishop (1782–1846)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Esaias van de Velde
1587–1630
Dutch landscape painter (1587-1630)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ossian Skiöld
1889–1961
Swedish hammer thrower (1889–1961)
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q19860310CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: EsaiasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Esaias.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section VIII (Later Israelite Names)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Esaias

Biblical Hebrew origin

Where Esaias is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Esaias Tegnér

Esaias van de Velde

Ossian Skiöld

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Esaias

Biblical Hebrew origin

Where Esaias is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Esaias Tegnér

Esaias van de Velde

Ossian Skiöld

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page