Ezrah
Masculine · “help”
Ezrah is given to both — 2,770 boys and 534 girls since 1880. See Ezrah as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Ezra was the scribe and priest who led exiles home from Babylon in the fifth century BCE, and a book of the Hebrew Bible carries his name; the name has been read aloud in synagogues and churches ever since. Ezrah is that same name with a final h, the ending English already knows from Noah, Micah and Isaiah. Two syllables, the stress landing first, and nothing in it needs explaining twice.
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 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,800 people named Ezrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ezrah most popular?
Ezrah peaked in 2023, reaching #695 nationally. Today it ranks #913, 218 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From עֶזְרָא (Ezra) to Ezrah
The story of Ezrah
The name is Hebrew: Ezra, from the root meaning help. Its most documented bearer is Ezra the scribe of the fifth century BCE, credited in the biblical book bearing his name with leading a return from Babylonian exile and reading the law aloud to the assembled people. Greek translators rendered it Esdras, which is how it passed into Latin and then into the Romance languages, while English kept the closer form Ezra — a favorite among Puritan families and carried by them to New England. The spelling Ezrah is a modern English extension, adding the silent h that already ends Noah, Jonah and Micah on the same shelf of biblical boys' names.
Meaning
help, or helper
From the Hebrew root ezer, 'help'. The biblical name is a shortened form of names like Azariah, 'God has helped'.
How the name formed
- עֶזְרָאEzra
- Esdras
- Ezra
- Ezrah
Related forms: Ezra · Ezra · Esdras · Esdras · Esdras · Ездра
Pronouncing Ezrah
EZ-ruh
Exactly as Ezra is said — the final h is silent. Some families give the second syllable a fuller 'ah', EZ-rah, and both are heard.
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 boys named
- 2023382 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #695reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −15.9%259 in 2025, from 308
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 — same name
- Ezra in English — spelling variant
- Esdras in Greek — related form
- Esdras in Spanish — related form
- Esdras in Latin — related form
- Ездра in Russian — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Ezrahs among us
people named Ezrah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 6,595 born in 2025 was named Ezrah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ezrah
- #913
- Ezrah on the 2025 chart
- #20
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ezrah went to 259 boys in 2025, but Ezra is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 8,385, which makes it the 20th most-given boys’ name of the year — 893 places above the chart.
- Ezra8,126
- Ezrah259
About 1 boy in 204 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 6,595 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 Gonzalo 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: Gonzalo climbed just as high around 2000, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gonzalo's path sketches the road Ezrah is walking now.
Ezrah is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
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 looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sounds identical to Ezra, a name nearly everyone already recognizes, so it never needs pronouncing twice.
- The root meaning — help — is settled Hebrew, not a guess, and traces to a named figure of the fifth century BCE.
- Ready-made short forms in real use: Ez, and Ezzy for the small years.
- Travels: the same name exists as Ezra in Hebrew and English and Esdras across Spanish, Greek and Latin.
- The -ah ending sits comfortably beside Noah, Micah, Elijah and Isaiah, a pattern American ears know well.
- The h will be dropped constantly. Ezra is the default spelling in most people's heads, so expect a lifetime of gentle corrections on forms, name tags and email addresses.
- Ezra itself is in wide, rising use right now. A child named Ezrah is unlikely to meet another Ezrah, but may well share a classroom sound with an Ezra or two.
- Some readers associate -ah endings with girls' names — Sarah, Leah, Hannah — even though Noah and Micah point the other way. In practice the resemblance to Ezra settles it quickly.
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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 2,800 people named Ezrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ezrah?
- Ezrah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ezra is the more common one — 8,126 births in 2025 against 259 for Ezrah.
- How popular is the name Ezrah in 2025?
- Ezrah ranks #913 among US boy names in 2025, with 259 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ezrah?
- About 1 in every 6,595 US boys born in 2025 was named Ezrah — 259 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ezrah with classmates?
- Ezrah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ezrah
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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