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Esdras

Esdras is a boy's name that peaked in 2023, when it was the 1,941st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,006th. About 1,600 Esdrases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Esdras

By the numbers

Total US births
1,622
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
12
Peak year
2023
Best rank
1,941st
Rank in 2025
2,006th
First recorded
1972

How old the living Esdrases are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,622 babies given the name since 1972, about 1,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Esdras is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Esdras is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Texas (3.6×), Florida (3.3×), Maryland (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Esdras peaked:

All the names of 2023

Esdras elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Esdras 285 1,627th
Switzerland boys Esdras 7 1,619th
France girls Esdras 5 6,380th
England and Wales boys Esdras 3 3,849th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Esdras: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Esdras 2 0.000% 1,463rd
French boys Switzerland Esdras 5 0.001% 642nd

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.