Rising since 1985, #20 for boys today.
Popularity of Ezra since 1880
Babies named Ezra per year in U.S. Social Security records.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 356 |
| 1890s | 405 |
| 1900s | 304 |
| 1910s | 1,081 |
| 1920s | 1,373 |
| 1930s | 819 |
| 1940s | 574 |
| 1950s | 677 |
| 1960s | 588 |
| 1970s | 1,271 |
| 1980s | 1,755 |
| 1990s | 2,854 |
| 2000s | 8,326 |
| 2010s | 38,650 |
| 2020s | 47,728 |
Meaning & origin
A scribe's name from the Hebrew Bible, Ezra has traveled from Puritan New England obscurity to the American mainstream. It has appeared in the federal data every year since records began in 1880, but for most of that span it read as antique, the property of nineteenth-century farmers and the poet Ezra Pound. The turn came in the mid-1980s: Ezra has been rising steadily since 1985 and touched its all-time peak in 2024.
As of 2025 it stands at No. 20 nationally, given to about one of every 210 newborn boys. Its geography is striking for a biblical name: rather than clustering in the South, Ezra runs strongest in Wyoming, New Mexico, and Hawaii, suggesting its appeal now has more to do with sound, the fashionable initial vowel and -a ending it shares with Asher, Eli, and Noah, than with any single religious tradition. Parents drawn to it tend to like the same mix of gravity and zip found in Felix, Milo, and August.
Hebrew ʿEzrāʾ derives from a root meaning "help," and most reference works treat it as a shortened form of a theophoric name like Azariah ("Yahweh has helped"). Its defining bearer is the priest and scribe of the biblical Book of Ezra, who led a group of Judean exiles back from Babylon in the fifth century BC and is credited with restoring the Torah to public life. English Puritans adopted it after the Reformation, and it crossed to colonial America, where nineteenth-century bearers such as Ezra Cornell kept it in circulation. It spent most of the twentieth century as a quiet, bookish rarity before beginning a long fashionable climb in the 1980s.
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Where Ezra is most popular
Births per 100,000 boys by state. Press play or drag the slider to watch it move across the decades. The lightest shade means too few recorded births.
“Ezra” around the world
Where Ezra lands in the latest official birth statistics abroad, matched to the U.S. spelling.
France
425
babies in 2024
Ireland
33
babies in 2025
New Zealand
#25
in 2025
Quebec
53
babies in 2025
Australia (NSW)
#58
in 2025
Sources: INSEE (France) · CSO Ireland (Ireland) · NZ Dept of Internal Affairs (New Zealand) · Retraite Québec (Quebec) · NSW Registry of BDM (Australia (NSW)).
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: Ez, Ezzy
Famous people named Ezra
- Ezra Pound · modernist American poet
- Ezra Cornell · businessman and co-founder of Cornell University
- Ezra Koenig · frontman of the band Vampire Weekend
Sibling names for Ezra
Names that share Ezra's style, for a brother or sister.
Sisters: Hazel, Nora, Iris, Ada, Ruth, Alora, Delilah, Eliana, Maya, Mila, Naomi, Amara, Ariella, Eden, Esther, Nyla, Shiloh, Tabitha, Adina, Alaia, Amayah, Areli, Ariya, Ariyah, Arya, Azaria, Caia, Damaris, Daphne, Effie, Etta, Hosanna, Iva, Izabella, Jael, Jemima, Jenesis, Kaia, Kaiyah, Kala, Kaya, Kehlani, Kora, Kya, Leora, Lettie, Leyna, Lilith, Mercy, Mylah, Navi, Noa, Nyah, Patience, Promise, Remi, Rhea, Salem, Salome, Samara, Selah, Tressa, Yitty, Zayla, Zola, Zya, Adalia, Adhara, Airam, Alasia, Aleeza, Alizae, Alizah, Amariah, Amerie, Amoura, Avie, Avyanna, Aylani, Ayva, Ayvah, Azari, Azia, Bliss, Briza, Daja, Daphney, Devora, Dreama, Elisheva, Eliyah, Eliyanah, Elizah, Emori, Evolet, Ezri, Hermon, Ilah, Ivie, Jhene, Joella, Jovi, Jurnee, Kalista, Kezia, Khalani, Khali, Kimi, Lael, Liyah, Mahala, Mahalia, Malayna, Mayah, Mayla, Mica, Miriah, Nessa, Nilah, Nissa, Novalee, Peri, Rumi, Ryah, Saray, Sayra, Shekinah, Shifra, Sinai, Skylah, Sury, Suzannah, Talitha, Talya, Temple, 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Names like Ezra
Names whose popularity has moved with Ezra's over the last 50 years.

