as a First Name
Biblical name, borne by the elder twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright for a bowl of soup (‘a mess of potage’ in the Authorized Version) when he came home tired and hungry from a hunt. The name seems to mean ‘hairy’ in Hebrew (Genesis 25:25 ‘and the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau’). It is now rarely used as a given name in the English-speaking world.
| 6,649th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,582
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Esau per capita
- 2007
- marked the height of its popularity
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