Entry № 3080 · Other origin

Esi Esi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Born on Sunday (Akan day-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "born on sunday (akan day-name)".

Esi is a girls' name meaning born on sunday (akan day-name).

Born on Sunday (Akan day-name).

The name in its native script.

Esi
Transliteration
Esi
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Esi stands.

Esi 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.

Esis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian writer + feminist 1942-2023 + Our Sister Killjoy 1977 + Changes: A Love Story 1991 + pan-Akan literary heritage
Ghanaian literature

Names connected to Esi.

The number behind Esi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Esi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.