Ezra
Nationally, Ezra lands at #20 for 2025, at or near its all-time peak. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 106,761 bearers and counting.
What Ezra carries
Ezra · Hebrew
“rising of light”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Ezra’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ezra, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ezra since 1880
Ezra peaked in 2024 at #13; #20 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ezra is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Ezra runs strongest in Wyoming at 1.65% in 2025, then New Mexico and Hawaii.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ezra
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Asher
#28 in 2025 · Hebrew
Levi
#12 in 2025 · Hebrew
Naomi
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ezekiel
#61 in 2025 · Hebrew
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Eliza
#115 in 2025 · Hebrew
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Ezra
Where does Ezra rank right now?
Nationally, Ezra lands at #20 for 2025, at or near its all-time peak. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Ezra mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “rising of light”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Ezra?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Asher, Levi and Naomi, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Ezra’s free Name Kit
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