Ezra is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The first name Ezra is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #69 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Ezra, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 77,724 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ezra. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Ezra is of Hebrew origin and it means ‘help’ or ‘helper.’ In the Old Testament of the Bible, Ezra was a priest and leader of the Jewish community who helped to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and to re-establish the worship of God among the Jewish people. The name is associated with leadership, devotion to God, and a strong sense of purpose.
The Temple of Jerusalem,... also known as the Second Temple, was the central place of worship for the Jewish from 516 BCE to 70 CE. It was built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the First Temple had stood before it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE
Ezra Miller (*1992)
Miller is an American actor, best known for their portrayal of the superhero the Flash in many films and tv series. As Aurelius Dumbledore, Miller appeared in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. The actor prefers the pronoun they, identifying as a human.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Living mainly in Italy, Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic. He has had major influence on the early modernist poetry with his 800-page epic poem The Cantos. During World War II, he was a fascist collaborator in Italy, being later arrested by American forces on charges of treason.
Ezra Ames (1768 - 1836)
He was a popular portrait painter working in Albany, New York. In his career, he painted many prominent people of his time such as Alexander Hamilton, the first US secretary of treasury. Unlike many artists, Ames retired as a wealthy man around 1830.
Ezra Meeker (1830 - 1928)
Meeker was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon trail from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. He started the hop-growing boom in this area and was therefore called the Hop King of the World". In 1890, he became the first mayor of Puyallup, Washington.
When you hear the name Ezra, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Ezra? Are you also called Ezra? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
in Foard County, Texas is called Ezra. In Alabama, there is another one bearing the same name.
in Tel Aviv, Israel is named Ezra. It is located in the southeast of the city.
live in Ezra, Illinois. A village by the same name lies in Tompkins County, New York.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Ezra is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Ezra has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2022 the name even made it to rank #21 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ezra was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 8,396 boys were born and given the name Ezra by their parents. That puts Ezra at #21 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1964 - only 45 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 1,014 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
The name Ezra may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Ezra is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 732 men in Nevada is called Ezra. In total, that’s 773 people who feel addressed when the name Ezra is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #172 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Ezra as the answer a total of 77,724 times. This places Ezra at #340 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Ezra as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Ezra is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Ezra and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ezra, you can simply say:
Elephant
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Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ezra
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ezra sounds like this:
