Esly
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ESS-lee
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Esly is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Esly mean?
Spelling of Esli; uncertain; perhaps the biblical Esli or a form of Leslie
Esli appears in the Gospel of Luke as one of the ancestors in the genealogy of Jesus.
Meaning borrowed from Esli.
Is Esly a girl's or a boy's name?
Esly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Esly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 58% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Esly, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2004, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.
Half of all the girls named Esly in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 56 girls in the US were given Esly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,426, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.
- Esli 34
- Esly 16
- Eslie 6
Esly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,347 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,761 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
Names like Esly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lily, Emery, Emely, Emmy, Ellie, Ivy, Kennedy, Riley, Presley, Avery, Miley, Landry
Other spellings of Esly
Names related to Esly
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Esly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/esly, updated 20 October 2026.