Ezra
Top 1000
About Ezra
Ezra is a biblical favorite for boys that's been making inroads into the girls' Top 1000 since 2018 and it's easy to see why. With its soft sounds and -a ending, it holds the same appeal as Noa, Sasha, Micah, and Luka do: short, sweet, and solid. 2024 saw Ezra climb 61 places up the US charts, placing it just outside the Top 700.
Though it was given to nearly 400 baby girls in 2024, that's still below the 10% cutoff required to make a name truly unisex. More than 8770 baby boys were named Ezra last year, meaning only 5% of Ezras born in the US were girls.
Lovers of Ezra for a girl might like the pretty Turkish name Esra, a variant of Arabic Isra meaning "she who travels by night". There's also Ezri, which, thanks to pop culture, is now more popular for girls.
Pronounced EZ-ruh.
As of October 2026, Ezra ranked #834 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #645 in 2022.
Editor's take: The name Ezra is a girl's name meaning "help".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,440 | 158 | 88.4 |
| 2015 | #1,201 | 208 | 116.5 |
| 2016 | #1,227 | 200 | 112.9 |
| 2017 | #1,182 | 207 | 119.9 |
| 2018 | #962 | 275 | 161.7 |
| 2019 | #824 | 330 | 196.6 |
| 2020 | #713 | 393 | 243.1 |
| 2021 | #714 | 401 | 244.4 |
| 2022 | #645 | 457 | 278.6 |
| 2023 | #764 | 369 | 230 |
| 2024 | #705 | 398 | 245.7 |
| 2025 | #834 | 327 | 203.5 |
World rankings
Similar names
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- Zuri
- Lennox
- Monroe
- Luca
- Noa
- Spencer
- Cadence
Ezra on lists
Famous Ezras
- Ezra Key
great,granddaughter of Mick Jagger
- Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
American poet
- Ezra Jack Keats
American author/illustrator
- Ezra
biblical prophet/priest
- George Ezra (Barnett)
English singer and songwriter
- Ezra Butler
American NFL football player
- Ezra Butler
American politician; 11th Governor of Vermont
- Ezra Dean
U.S. Congressman from Ohio
- Ezra Bartlett French
U.S. Congressman from Maine
- Ezra Cornell
American, founder of Cornell University
- Ezra Stiles
American, minister and president of Yale College
- Ezra Manning Meeker
American pioneer
- Ezra Hervey Heywood
American abolitionist and suffragist
- Ezra Taft Benson
American, former leader of the Mormon Church
- Ezra Michael Koenig
American musician; member of "Vampire Weekend"
- Ezra Kire
lead singer of American punk band "Morning Glory"
- Ezra Hendrickson
Vincentian footballer
- Ezra Yitzhak Nawi
Israeli activist
- Ezra Isaac Levant
Canadian media personality
- Ezra Stone (born Ezra Chaim Feinstone)
American actor
- Ezra Horton
English footballer
- Ezra Edelman
American TV producer and director
- Ezra Nahmad
Lebanese billionaire art patron
- Ezra Reich (b. 1978)
son of composer Steve Reich and artist Beryl Korot
- Ezra Jordan
son of songwriters Amy Sky and Marc Jordan
- Ezra Samuel Reiser (b. 1995)
son of actor Paul Reiser
- Ezra Baddiel (b. 2004)
son of actors Morwenna Banks and David Baddiel
- Ezra Quinn (b. 2008)
son of actor Brandon Quinn
- Ezra Youngsma (b. 2010)
son of drummer Derek Youngsma of band Bleeding Through
- Jordan Ezra Hanson (b. 2002)
son of singer Taylor Hanson
- Ezra Matthew Miller
American actor
- Leo Ezra Egan (b. 2015)
late son of TV chef Kelsey Nixon and Robby Egan
Ezra in pop culture
- Erza Scarlet
female character in the Anime, "Fairy Tail"
- Ezra Bridger
Jedi,Padawan, main protagonist on Disney's animated TV show, "Star Wars: Rebels"
- Ezra
main,antagonist in the Anime movie, "Space Pirate Captain Harlock"
- Ezra Fitz
character on "Pretty Little Liars"
- Ezra
main character on "Dark Intensions" and "Dark Vows"
- Ezra Cohen
character in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
- Ezra "Mordecai" Lapidoph
character in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
- Ezra
character in "High School Story"
- Ezra Mason
character in "Illuminae"
- Ezra Standish
character on TV's "The Magnificent Seven"
- Ezra
character in "Seven Pounds"
- Ezra Ezekiel Baxter
character in "The Yearling"
- Ezra
character in comic books by Sean O'Reilly
- Ezra
character in "The Haunted Mansion"
- Ezra Friedken
character in "Higher Ground"
- "Ezra"
a song by Flume
- "Ezra"
2007 movie
- Better Than Ezra
an American alt,rock band