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Ezra vs Ezrin

American parents have registered 111,768 Ezras since 1880, against 40 Ezrins. Ezra is still ahead, with 8,453 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezra against Ezrin, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezra Ezrin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ezra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Ezra had 7,224 and Ezrin had 12.

Side by side

  Ezra Ezrin
Total US births 111,76840
Most in one year 9,22212
Babies in 2025 8,4536
Estimated living today 106,00040
Median age today 63
Peak year 20242020
Best rank 13th boys6,620th boys
Rank in 2025 20th10,695th
First recorded 18802020
Girls / boys 5,007 / 106,7610 / 40

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ezras alive today are over 6; half the Ezrins are over 3. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ezra Ezrin
England and Wales 13,4837

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ezra and Ezrin.