Name Trends

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How popular is “Ezra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ezra” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ezra” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ezra” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ezra” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ezra” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ezra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ezra” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 39 0.000193564 39 -100%
1881 44 0.000228348 44 -100%
1882 41 0.000185074 41 -100%
1883 28 0.000129064 28 -100%
1884 43 0.00017662 43 -100%
1885 24 0.000099645 24 -100%
1886 39 0.000152752 39 -100%
1887 33 0.000133392 33 -100%
1888 32 0.000106854 32 -100%
1889 33 0.000114208 33 -100%
1890 43 0.000142667 43 -100%
1891 38 0.000132555 38 -100%
1892 44 0.000131589 44 -100%
1893 38 0.000116843 38 -100%
1894 44 0.000129912 44 -100%
1895 45 0.000128198 45 -100%
1896 45 0.00012588 45 -100%
1897 43 0.000123935 43 -100%
1898 40 0.000104862 40 -100%
1899 25 0.000073695 25 -100%
1900 42 0.00009328 42 -100%
1901 20 0.000057835 20 -100%
1902 26 0.00006723 26 -100%
1903 33 0.000086569 33 -100%
1904 34 0.000084266 34 -100%
1905 32 0.000075486 32 -100%
1906 31 0.000072354 31 -100%
1907 31 0.000066611 31 -100%
1908 25 0.000051161 25 -100%
1909 30 0.000058683 30 -100%
1910 42 0.000071101 42 -100%
1911 46 0.000071398 46 -100%
1912 89 0.000090075 89 -100%
1913 84 0.000073871 84 -100%
1914 107 0.000075547 107 -100%
1915 142 0.000077493 7 135 -90%
1916 153 0.000079094 153 -100%
1917 140 0.000069765 140 -100%
1918 148 0.000068168 6 142 -92%
1919 143 0.000067765 143 -100%
1920 142 0.000062758 142 -100%
1921 170 0.000072821 6 164 -93%
1922 149 0.000065089 149 -100%
1923 166 0.000072096 166 -100%
1924 148 0.000062143 5 143 -93%
1925 133 0.000057001 133 -100%
1926 139 0.000060543 139 -100%
1927 121 0.00005217 7 114 -88%
1928 117 0.000051748 117 -100%
1929 106 0.000048354 106 -100%
1930 109 0.000049026 109 -100%
1931 84 0.000039917 84 -100%
1932 82 0.000038839 82 -100%
1933 88 0.000044012 88 -100%
1934 106 0.00005104 106 -100%
1935 78 0.000037322 78 -100%
1936 98 0.00004717 98 -100%
1937 73 0.000034262 73 -100%
1938 51 0.00002305 51 -100%
1939 50 0.000022692 50 -100%
1940 60 0.000026057 60 -100%
1941 48 0.000019701 48 -100%
1942 59 0.000021597 59 -100%
1943 59 0.000020903 59 -100%
1944 64 0.000023791 64 -100%
1945 51 0.000019224 51 -100%
1946 52 0.000016274 52 -100%
1947 59 0.000016378 59 -100%
1948 56 0.00001622 56 -100%
1949 66 0.00001894 66 -100%
1950 75 0.000021408 75 -100%
1951 78 0.000021174 78 -100%
1952 57 0.000015008 57 -100%
1953 76 0.000019722 76 -100%
1954 58 0.00001457 58 -100%
1955 70 0.000017434 70 -100%
1956 73 0.000017705 73 -100%
1957 70 0.000016658 70 -100%
1958 60 0.000014514 60 -100%
1959 60 0.00001443 60 -100%
1960 62 0.000014926 62 -100%
1961 61 0.000014726 61 -100%
1962 57 0.000014125 57 -100%
1963 67 0.000016927 67 -100%
1964 45 0.000011575 45 -100%
1965 59 0.000016274 59 -100%
1966 57 0.0000164 57 -100%
1967 52 0.000015317 52 -100%
1968 55 0.00001628 55 -100%
1969 73 0.000021005 73 -100%
1970 70 0.000019409 70 -100%
1971 96 0.000027969 96 -100%
1972 103 0.000032771 103 -100%
1973 129 0.000042759 8 121 -88%
1974 123 0.000040461 123 -100%
1975 150 0.000049679 5 145 -93%
1976 157 0.000051742 8 149 -90%
1977 165 0.000051944 7 158 -92%
1978 151 0.000047576 151 -100%
1979 156 0.000046889 156 -100%
1980 174 0.000050515 7 167 -92%
1981 200 0.000057814 11 189 -89%
1982 179 0.000051027 179 -100%
1983 144 0.000041578 144 -100%
1984 152 0.000043569 152 -100%
1985 180 0.000050433 7 173 -92%
1986 163 0.000045824 163 -100%
1987 207 0.00005741 8 199 -92%
1988 208 0.000056292 6 202 -94%
1989 188 0.000048902 188 -100%
1990 185 0.000046806 6 179 -94%
1991 192 0.000049291 8 184 -92%
1992 189 0.000049202 11 178 -88%
1993 232 0.000061534 9 223 -92%
1994 235 0.000063212 8 227 -93%
1995 273 0.000074546 14 259 -90%
1996 357 0.000097883 19 338 -89%
1997 379 0.00010453 24 355 -87%
1998 473 0.000128595 22 451 -91%
1999 493 0.000133464 33 460 -87%
2000 604 0.000159792 38 566 -87%
2001 616 0.000164557 42 574 -86%
2002 603 0.000161304 32 571 -89%
2003 692 0.000181994 41 651 -88%
2004 784 0.000205186 52 732 -87%
2005 913 0.000237461 57 856 -88%
2006 970 0.000245185 57 913 -88%
2007 1026 0.000256649 74 952 -86%
2008 1246 0.000316995 82 1164 -87%
2009 1434 0.000375375 90 1344 -87%
2010 1537 0.000415884 89 1448 -88%
2011 1861 0.000508777 101 1760 -89%
2012 2211 0.000604533 122 2089 -89%
2013 2908 0.000797659 151 2757 -90%
2014 3581 0.000966173 158 3423 -91%
2015 4545 0.001228076 208 4337 -91%
2016 5079 0.001384415 200 4879 -92%
2017 5553 0.001552768 207 5346 -93%
2018 6322 0.001798119 275 6047 -91%
2019 6879 0.001981888 330 6549 -90%
2020 7223 0.002162201 393 6830 -89%
2021 7836 0.002312904 401 7435 -90%
2022 8471 0.002503891 457 8014 -89%
2023 8843 0.002670636 369 8474 -92%
2024 9172 0.002755595 398 8774 -91%