Ezra

What Ezra means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ezra yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ezra?

US: Rising: up from #93 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #127 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 8,822 boys got the name (#13 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 210 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 209 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 436 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (16.51 per 1,000 boys), NM (10.31 per 1,000 boys), HI (9.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ezra is #20 in the US and #38 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.1% of US babies named Ezra were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ezrah259 US · 25 E&W
• Ezri19 US · 19 E&W
• Azra20 US
• Ezer9 US
• Azrah7 US
• Izra7 US
• Ezir5 US
• Isra5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ezra

Boys

• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Samson#477Editor’s note Up from #618 in 2015 to #477 in 2025 in the US
• Matthias#372From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*

For a sister

• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ezra’s. Rank is US 2025.