Ezrah
Feminine · “help”
Ezrah is given to both — 534 girls and 2,770 boys since 1880. See Ezrah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Ezra is Hebrew for help, and the man who bore it did more to shape Judaism after the exile than almost anyone.
How old is the name Ezrah?
Ezrah first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Ezrah is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Ezrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ezrah most popular?
Ezrah peaked in 2021, reaching #3435 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 1,226 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ezra to Ezrah
The story of Ezrah
Ezra led a return from Babylon and, the book says, read the law aloud to the assembled people from morning until midday while others explained it — a scene often treated as the beginning of Judaism as a religion of a book rather than a temple. Tradition credits him with fixing the text and the script. The name is used for both sexes in modern American records.
Meaning
help
From Hebrew ezra, help or aid; the name is a plain noun. The fuller Azariah adds the divine name and means the Lord has helped. The final h is an American addition to the standard spelling.
How the name formed
- ezra
- Ezrah
Related forms: Ezra · Uzayr
Pronouncing Ezrah
EZ-ruh
Two syllables, first stressed. Ezrah and Ezra are said identically.
Nicknames for Ezrah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 202145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3435reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +16.0%29 in 2025, from 25
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ezrah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ezra in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Uzayr in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Virginia.
Ezrahs among us
people named Ezrah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Ezrah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ezrah
- #4661
- Ezrah on the 2025 chart
- #560
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ezrah went to 29 girls in 2025, but Ezra, Esra and Esraa are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 438, which makes it the 560th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,101 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,670 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 55,423 for Ezrah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dawnya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ezrah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dawnya climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dawnya's path sketches the road Ezrah is walking now.
Ezrah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ezrah is headed
Ezrah is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ezrah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ezrah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is a plain and useful word.
- Ez and Ezzy are both ready short forms.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Ezra is the standard spelling and much more common.
- It is a men's name in the Bible and predominantly so in use.
- The silent final h is invisible aloud and will be dropped.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ezrahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Ezrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ezrah?
- Ezrah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Ezra is the more common one — 327 births in 2025 against 29 for Ezrah.
- How popular is the name Ezrah in 2025?
- Ezrah ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ezrah?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Ezrah — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ezrah with classmates?
- Ezrah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ezrah
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