Meaning and history
Ezra is a Hebrew name meaning help. In the Old Testament, Ezra is a priest and scribe associated with restoring Jewish religious life after the Babylonian exile, and the name entered wider English use after the Protestant Reformation. A prominent modern bearer was American poet Ezra Pound.
20062006: 914 births, rank #340
2007: 952 births, rank #336
2008: 1,165 births, rank #291
2009: 1,344 births, rank #258
2010: 1,449 births, rank #241
20112011: 1,760 births, rank #203
2012: 2,090 births, rank #183
2013: 2,757 births, rank #142
2014: 3,424 births, rank #118
2015: 4,339 births, rank #93
20162016: 4,882 births, rank #85
2017: 5,349 births, rank #69
2018: 6,048 births, rank #59
2019: 6,552 births, rank #49
2020: 6,831 births, rank #44
20212021: 7,438 births, rank #37
2022: 8,023 births, rank #25
2023: 8,488 births, rank #15
2024: 8,822 births, rank #13
20252025: 8,126 births, rank #20
Ezra has made a dramatic comeback. After first appearing in the US records in 1880, it fell to #998 by 1959, before climbing to #20 in 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2024, with 8,822 births.