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Baby name
Ezra
Boy
Origin of the name
Ezra comes from the Hebrew, “help.” In the Bible, Ezra is the scribe who led the Jews back from exile in Babylon.
Rising name
106,761births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 13rank at its peak, in 2024
Where babies named Ezra are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ezra is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ezra is most common in Nevada (3.1 times), Alaska (2.5) and Utah (2.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Ezrah 2,770
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