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Ezrael vs Ezrah

American parents have registered 3,304 Ezrahs since 1880, against 552 Ezraels. Ezrah is still ahead, with 288 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezrael against Ezrah, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezrael Ezrah

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

Ezrah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Ezrael had 53 and Ezrah had 195.

Side by side

  Ezrael Ezrah
Total US births 5523,304
Most in one year 73422
Babies in 2025 73288
Estimated living today 5503,300
Median age today 45
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 2,035th boys695th boys
Rank in 2025 2,035th913th
First recorded 20091998
Girls / boys 0 / 552534 / 2,770

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ezrael Ezrah
England and Wales 3276

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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