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Ezrah vs Ezriel

American parents have registered 3,304 Ezrahs since 1880, against 1,006 Ezriels. Ezrah is still ahead, with 288 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezrah against Ezriel, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezrah Ezriel

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

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Ezrah for 23 years and Ezriel for 14 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ezrah Ezriel
Total US births 3,3041,006
Most in one year 42284
Babies in 2025 28883
Estimated living today 3,3001,000
Median age today 57
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 695th boys1,891st boys
Rank in 2025 913th1,886th
First recorded 19981976
Girls / boys 534 / 2,7700 / 1,006

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 Ezriels alive today are over 7; half the Ezrahs are over 5. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Ezrah Ezriel
England and Wales 27657

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: Ezrah and Ezriel.