Esad

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Esad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 3.4K◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 44K
  • SISlovenia1 in 5.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.7K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
47 ●

30K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.1K ◐

Slovenia

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Esad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—12,39715K rec.——Esad47
SY Syria#3869,91114K rec.——Esad5
US United States—443247 rec.1 in 751K443Esad37
SI Slovenia—416△4 rec.1 in 5.1K417—1
HR Croatia—325—1 in 13K325——
SE Sweden—269△12 rec.1 in 38K269—7
IQ Iraq—202297 rec.——Esad3
IN India—15611 rec.——Esad7
NL Netherlands—9781 rec.1 in 178K97Esad7
DK Denmark—76—1 in 77K76——
BE Belgium—5049 rec.——Esad6
AF Afghanistan—3535 rec.——Esad3

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish15K39%
  • Arabic7.9K21%
  • Croatian3.1K8%
  • English2.3K6%
  • German2K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish14,79939%
Arabic7,85921%
Croatian3,1108%
English2,2826%
German1,9975%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Esad is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name5.3K records spelled Esad10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian

    Also written Есад

  • Russian given name507 records spelled Esad8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Эсад, Есад

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Esad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, eat shit and die

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030020002005201020152020262 · 2010

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Esad in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999251
2000252
2001256
2002260
2003260
2004258
2005257
2006261
2007259
2008261
2009260
2010262
2011259
2012258
2013261
2014261
2015258
2016258
2017258
2018257
2019251
2020246

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Esad Erbilî, b. 1847Essad Toptani, b. 1863Esad Mekuli, b. 1916Esad Dugalić, b. 1947As'ad AbuKhalil, b. 1960Esad Ribić, b. 1972Esad Razić, b. 1982Esad Veledar, b. 1984Esad Hasanović, b. 1985Asaad al-Shaibani, b. 1987
  • Esad Erbilîb. 1847TRKurdish writer (1847–1931)
  • Essad Toptanib. 1863ALnot in their usual nameOttoman army officer and Prime Minister of Albania from 1914 to 1916
  • Esad Mekulib. 1916MEAlbanian poet and scholar (1916–1993)
  • Esad Dugalićb. 1947HRBosnian footballer (1947-2011)
  • As'ad AbuKhalilb. 1960LBnot in their usual nameLebanese-American political scientist (born 1960)
  • Esad Ribićb. 1972HRCroatian comic book artist and animator (born 1972)
  • Esad Razićb. 1982SESwedish footballer
  • Esad Veledarb. 1984DEGerman association football player
  • Esad Hasanovićb. 1985RSSerbian bicycle racer
  • Asaad al-Shaibanib. 1987SYnot in their usual nameSyrian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Esad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—488#1,181
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020443#22,276
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023421#331
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022420#327
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021419#325
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—417#672
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025416#335
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020416#324
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024411#335
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019408#313
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010404#280
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014403#288

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Esad?
We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Esad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Esad have the most bearers?
Esad is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled esad.
How common is Esad compared with other names?
In Syria, Esad is the 386th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
Is Esad a male or female name?
Esad is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Esad” — the 386th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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