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Ezana vs Ezariah

American parents have registered 628 Ezariahs since 1880, against 603 Ezanas. Ezariah is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezana against Ezariah, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezana Ezariah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Ezana for 22 years and Ezariah for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ezana Ezariah
Total US births 603628
Most in one year 3997
Babies in 2025 2497
Estimated living today 600620
Median age today 94
Peak year 20192025
Best rank 3,052nd boys2,035th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th2,035th
First recorded 19922003
Girls / boys 0 / 603147 / 481

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ezanas alive today are over 9; half the Ezariahs are over 4. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ezana and Ezariah.