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Esdras

#2,012 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ezra

Esdras has been given to 1,622 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,012 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Esdras, 2025

1 in 44,200

Esdras over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esdras: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ezra

Hebrew

What Esdras means

Esdras is a form of Ezra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Esdras → Ezra. The family’s meaning is “help”, recorded in the naming reference for Ezra.

Origin, language, and formation

Esdras is used in Spanish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ezra.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Esdras is pronounced /ˈesdɾas/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,622 boys were recorded with the name Esdras between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,944 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,244 in 2020 to #2,012 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,440 in 2015 to #2,012 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Esdras?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,012
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esdras sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esdras. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esdrass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esdras was born before 2013 — so the typical Esdras is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,622
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (509).

Is Esdras rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+6
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+232
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+428
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2023 (80)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,944
2023

Spellings of Esdras

Esdras is the most-used spelling, taking 65.4% of the 2,480 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Esdras65.4%1,622
  • Esaias34.6%858

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Esdras is used

Across 2016–2025, Esdras was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 26,206 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 11,111
  2. 2Texas1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Esdras around the world

Where Esdras ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005
  • France
    1983–2025
    #1,627
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2018
    #2,748
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Esdras by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,012
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 232
Best rank ever
#1,944
2023
Peak year
2023
80 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,622
Count in 2025
75

Names similar to Esdras

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Esdras

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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