Ezra
Ezra is ranked 13th among boys in 2024 (8,774 births). Its best rank was 13th, in 2024.
- Rank in 2024
- #13up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8,7740.51% of boys
- Peak year
- 20248,774 births
- Best rank
- #13in 2024
- Since 1880
- 103,220people given the name
The story in the numbers
98,544 boys have been named Ezra in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 8,774 births — 0.51% of all boys recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2020s alone account for 40%. It has spent 142 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,676 girls have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ezra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 356 | |
| 1890s | 405 | |
| 1900s | 304 | |
| 1910s | 1,081 | |
| 1920s | 1,373 | |
| 1930s | 819 | |
| 1940s | 574 | |
| 1950s | 677 | |
| 1960s | 588 | |
| 1970s | 1,272 | |
| 1980s | 1,756 | |
| 1990s | 2,854 | |
| 2000s | 8,323 | |
| 2010s | 38,635 | |
| 2020s | 39,527 |
In 2024, its biggest year
Ezra was the 13th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.
Names that rose and fell with Ezra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Boonepeak 2024
- Ezekielpeak 2022
- Acepeak 2022
- Matiaspeak 2024
- Bennettpeak 2024
- Mateopeak 2024
- Arhampeak 2024
- Apollopeak 2022
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.