Entry № 3093 · Turkish origin

Esra Esra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ES-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Night journey (Turkish-Arabic)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "night journey (turkish-arabic)".

Esra (إسراء) is from the Arabic isrāʾ (night journey) — referring to Prophet Muhammad's night journey to Jerusalem. A widely used Turkish feminine name.

Esra Bilgiç (born 1992) is the Turkish actress (Dirilis Ertugrul).

Night journey. The Turkish-Arabic.

The name in its native script.

إسراء
Transliteration
Isrāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛs.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Esra stands.

Esra 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.

Esras before her.

Real people
Esra Bilgiç
Turkish actress.
born 1992
In fiction
Esra
Common in Turkish fiction.

Names connected to Esra.

The number behind Esra.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Esra reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.