Esad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/es̪ad̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 41K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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(measured from records)
Esad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #470 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Esad | 7 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Esad | 9 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Esad | 47 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Esad | 3 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Esad | 7 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 488 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 448 | 1 in 742K | 443 | Esad | 36 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 416 | 1 in 5.1K | 417 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 488 | #1,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 443 | #22,276 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 421 | #331 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 420 | #327 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 419 | #325 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 417 | #672 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 416 | #335 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 416 | #324 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 411 | #335 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 408 | #313 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 404 | #280 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 403 | #288 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Esad?
- A machine transcription gives /es̪ad̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- 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.
- In which country does Esad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Esad in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esad.
- How common is the name Esad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 448 people named Esad in 2020, about 1 in 742 thousand residents.
- How common is Esad compared with other names?
- In Syria, Esad is the 470th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Esad?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 470th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.