Entry № 3085 · Arabic origin

Esma Esma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ES-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Names of God / supreme (Esma Redžepova Queen of Romani Music)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "names of god / supreme (esma redžepova queen of romani music)".

Esma is from the Arabic Asmā' (أسماء — names) — also used as feminine across Bosnian, Romani, Turkish, and Albanian communities. Roma cultural icon.

Names of God / supreme (Esma Redžepova Queen of Romani Music) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

أسماء
Transliteration
Asmā'
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛs.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Esma stands.

Esma 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.

Esmas before her.

Real people
Esma Redžepova
Queen of Romani Music + Nobel Peace Prize nominee 2010.
1943 – 2016
In fiction
Esma
Arabic names.

Names connected to Esma.

The number behind Esma.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Esma reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.