Entry № 3078 · Swahili origin

Eshe Eshe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-shay /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"Life (Swahili heritage)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Swahili)

A name that means "life (swahili heritage)".

Eshe is from the Swahili Eshe (life). Eshe Ufansa — modern figure. Eshe Mukami — Kenyan academic. Eshe Cole — modern American figure. Eshe is also one of the names that appears in modern Afrofuturist fiction including works by N.K. Jemisin and Tomi Adeyemi.

Life (Swahili heritage) — a Swahili name.

The name in its native script.

Eshe
Transliteration
Eshe
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.ʃeɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eshe stands.

Eshe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eshes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Eshe
Swahili for life.

Names connected to Eshe.

The number behind Eshe.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eshe reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.