Esam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Esam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Libya it is the 72nd most common given name.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 6.5K
- USUnited States1 in 686K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Libya, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #518 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Esam | 83 |
| SD Sudan | #402 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Esam | 34 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #959 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Esam | 93 |
| YE Yemen | #369 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Esam | 38 |
| LY Libya | #72 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Esam | 27 |
| JO Jordan | #868 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Esam | 51 |
| US United States | — | 485 | 1 in 686K | 482 | Esam | 158 |
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: the wgnd-eg-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Esam is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, are; first-person plural present indicative of būt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative feminine singular of ēsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, exam, examination, review, test
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)
- Esam Dhahib. 1980AEEmirati association football player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 482 | #21,087 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #21,087 |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Esam a male or female name?
- Esam 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 Esam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Esam in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esam.
- How common is the name Esam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 485 people named Esam in 2020, about 1 in 686 thousand residents.
- How common is Esam compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Esam is the 518th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Esam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esamThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Esam” — the 518th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.