Esdras
Esdras was given to 75 boys in 2025, #2,012 among boys’ names; 1,622 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Esdras and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esdras by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Esdras mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Esdras is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Ezra”
/ˈesdɾas/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Esdras?
#2,012 among boys’ names, 2025
Esdras rose from #2,440 in 2015 to #2,012 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 43.9 per million.
80 babies in 2023, the peak
Esdras peaked in 2023, when 80 boys were given it, #1,944 among boys’ names. The 75 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,012 | 43.9 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,018 | 44.1 |
| 2023 | 80 | #1,944 | 46.8 |
| 2022 | 77 | #1,985 | 44.1 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,178 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,244 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,051 | 39.6 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,520 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,057 | 36.7 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,215 | 32.1 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #2,440 | 27.1 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,321 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,633 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,566 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,127 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,751 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,066 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,966 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,986 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,631 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,761 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,857 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,304 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,566 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,633 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,755 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,046 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,728 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,921 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,449 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,592 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,252 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,301 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,975 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,700 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,481 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,428 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,579 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,797 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,950 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,324 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,305 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,199 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,722 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,742 | 3.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,809 | 5.7 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,739 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Esdras a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esdras has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esdras: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esdras, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,622 Americans ever recorded as Esdras. The median Esdras alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,741 people named Esdras (35 women and girls, 1,706 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 192 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 574 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 809 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Esdras born?
The states with the most babies named Esdras are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,313 | 1.1× |
| California | 10 | #1,623 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #868 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,920 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 5 | #844 | 1.0× |
Where Esdras is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Esdras is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Esdras with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Esdras
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Esdras and names like it
- Compare Esdras and SaifBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEsdras peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Esdras since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Esdras: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Esdras.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Esdras alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.