Esra

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled 에스라 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Esra is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name47K records spelled Esra20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, Türkiye, Austria

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written E'Sra, Esra', Èśrâ, Ėsra, 'Esra

• French given name22K records spelled Esra15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written E'Sra, Ésra, Eşra, Ešrã, Ěśřặ

• Arabic given name20K records spelled Esra70 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Egypt, Libya

  Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

  Also written Esra', Eşra, Esrã, E'Sra, Esrâ

• Macedonian given name4.3K records spelled Esra25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, North Macedonia, Poland, Bulgaria

  Languages: Macedonian, Russian, Polish

  Also written Есра, Эсра, Eşra, Ęsra, Êšřa

• a separate given name3.5K records spelled Esra2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, India, United Kingdom

  Also written Esr̲ā

• Chinese given name2.4K records spelled Esra3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Syria

  Languages: Chinese, Burmese

  Also written E'Sra

38 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●

Esra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Esra är en turkisk form av de arabiska Asra och → Isra som betyder ’resa på natten’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Welsh, a male given name from Hebrew עֶזְרָא (“succour”), equivalent to English Ezra

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Ezra (biblical book and character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Afrikaans, Ezra (Biblical figure)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 42 years between 1978–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Esra Dermancıoğlub. 1968TRTurkish actor (born 1968)
• Esra Bezen Bilginb. 1973TRTurkish actor (born 1973)
• Esra Şencebeb. 1981TRTurkish basketball player (born 1981)
• Esra Gümüşb. 1982TRTurkish beach volleyball player (born 1982)
• Esra Albayrak Erdoğanb. 1983TRTurkish sociologist (born 1983)
• Esra'a Al Shafeib. 1986BHBahraini activist
• Esra Trompb. 1990NLcyclist
• Esra Bilgiçb. 1992TRTurkish actress (born 1992)
• Esra Sibel Tezkanb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
• Esra Yıldızb. 1997TRTurkish boxer (born 1997)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 354 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Esra?

We estimate roughly 307 thousand people bear Esra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Esra have the most bearers?

We estimate about 248 thousand people bear Esra in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled esra.

Where is Esra most common?

Esra is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 330 people carrying it.

How common is Esra compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Esra is the 56th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Esra a male or female name?

Esra is a female 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.

What does the name Esra mean?

Recorded meaning: En çabuk, pek çabuk.