Ezra
Ezra is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 13th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 20th. About 106,000 Ezras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ezra boys named Ezra
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 111,768
- Estimated living today
- 106,000
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 13th
- Rank in 2025
- 20th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5,007 / 106,761
How old the living Ezras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 111,768 babies given the name since 1880, about 106,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 93,000 of them are children and 880 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 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 the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From the Biblical Hebrew עֶזְרָא.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ezras
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972)American poet and critic
- Ezra Miller (born 1992)American actor
- George Ezra (born 1993)English singer-songwriter
- Robert Ezra Park (1864–1944)American sociologist
- Ezra Koenig (born 1984)American rock musician
- Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994)President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Ezra Klein (born 1984)American journalist
- Ezra Cornell (1807–1874)American businessman
People named Ezra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ezra is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ezra is most concentrated in Nevada (3.0×), Alaska (2.4×), Arizona (2.3×), Utah (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Ezra peaked:
Ezra elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ezra | 13,138 | 38th |
| France boys | Ezra +1 spelling | 3,355 | 140th |
| New Zealand boys | Ezra | 917 | 24th |
| Belgium boys | Ezra | 743 | 122nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ezra | 515 | 23rd |
| Scotland boys | Ezra | 472 | 91st |
| Switzerland boys | Ezra | 354 | 144th |
| England and Wales girls | Ezra | 345 | 983rd |
| Ireland boys | Ezra | 330 | 157th |
| France girls | Ezra | 300 | 940th |
| Belgium girls | Ezra | 46 | 867th |
| Poland boys | Ezra | 27 birth registrations | 452nd |
| Ireland girls | Ezra | 5 | 661st |
| Scotland girls | Ezra | 3 | 808th |
| Poland girls | Ezra | 2 birth registrations | 616th |
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.
Ezra: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ezra | 213 | 0.017% | 174th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ezra | 139 | 0.032% | 84th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ezra | 2 | 0.003% | 179th |
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.
By canton, Ezra is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 41 of them.
Ezra: rank by region
In 2025, Ezra was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ezra | 119 | 49 |
| Wallonia | Ezra | 106 | 28 |
In 2025, Ezra was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Ezra | 203 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ezra appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (57th), Province of Namur (66th), Province of Hainaut (98th), Province of Flemish Brabant (102nd), Province of Antwerp (106th), Province of Limburg (132nd) and Province of Liège (147th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ezra by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 15 | 422nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ezra among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Ezra | 1,521 | 2,154 |
| the Netherlands girls | Ezra | 312 | 419 |
| Finland boys | Ezra | 59 | 80 |
| Finland girls | Ezra | 6 | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ezra against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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.