Eshe
Eshe is a name with a single cultural origin: Swahili.
- Swahili
Meaning & Origin of Eshe
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Eshe is a name with a single cultural origin: Swahili.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Swahili
The Story of Eshe
American parents first put Eshe on the record books as a baby girl name in 1977, with 9 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1977, when 9 Eshes were born — ranking #6,340 that year. About 39% of every Eshe on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Eshe last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 62 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Eshe
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About the name Eshe
Eshe is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 62 births in the dataset. Eshe's peak popularity came in 1977 when it ranked #6,340. Use the chart and map above to compare Eshe's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.