Ezra (name)

Ezra (Hebrew: עֶזְרָא) is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, derived from the root ע-ז-ר meaning "help".

The name originated from the Biblical figure Ezra the Scribe, who is traditionally credited as the author of Ezra-Nehemiah and the Books of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible. The name is a probable abbreviation of the name Azaryahu (עזריהו) which means "Yahweh helps". The name alternatively has the Greek-Latin form Esdras which was used for Ezra the Scribe which comes from the Greek word (Ἔσδρας). The name grew in popularity in the United States between 2000 and 2018, its ranking climbing from 431st to 59th.

Given name

 * Ezra Abbot (1819–1884), American biblical scholar
 * Ezra Ames (1768–1836), American portrait painter
 * Ezra Attiya (1885–1970), Rosh yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem
 * Ezra Baker (c. 1765-?), American politician
 * Ezra Bartlett (1861–1942), English cricketer
 * Ezra T. Benson (1811–1869), American religious leader
 * Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), American politician and religious leader
 * Charles Ezra Beury (1879–1953), American academic administrator
 * Ezra Booth (1792–1873), American religious leader
 * Ezra Brainerd (1844–1924), American academic administrator
 * Ezra A. Burrell (1867–?), American politician
 * Ezra Butler (1763–1838), American politician
 * Ezra Butler (American football) (born 1984), American footballer born in South Africa
 * Ezra C. Carleton (1838–1911), American politician
 * Ezra A. Carman (1834–1909), American military officer
 * Ezra Chitando, Zimbabwean academic
 * Ezra Churchill (1806–1874), Canadian industrialist
 * Ezra Clark, Jr. (1813–1896), American politician
 * Ezra Cleveland (born 1998), American football player
 * Ezra Cline (1907–1984), American bluegrass bassist
 * Ezra Danolds Cole (1902–1992), American philatelist
 * Ezra Convis (died 1838), American politician
 * Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American businessman, co-founder of Cornell University
 * Ezra C. Dalby (1869–1934), American academic administrator
 * Ezra Darby (1768–1808), American politician
 * Ezra Dean (1795–1872), American politician
 * Ezra Butler Eddy (1827–1906), Canadian businessman and political figure
 * Ezra Fitch (1865–1930), American businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch
 * Ezra Bartlett French (1810–1880), American politician
 * Ezra Furman (born 1986), American musician and songwriter
 * Ezra C. Gross (1787–1829), American politician
 * Ezra Heywood (1829–1893), American anarchist
 * Ezra Johnson (born 1955), American football player
 * Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983), American author
 * Ezra Kendall (1861–1910), American actor-comedian, humorist, playwright and author
 * Ezra Otis Kendall (1818–1899), American professor, astronomer and mathematician
 * Ezra Kire (born 1975), American musician
 * Ezra Klein (born 1984), American blogger and journalist
 * Ezra Koenig (born 1984), American musician
 * Ezra Levant (born 1972), Canadian writer
 * Ezra Meeker (1830–1928), American pioneer
 * Ezra Miller (born 1992), American actor
 * Ezra Nawi (1951–2021), Israeli peace activist
 * Ezra T. Newman (1929–2021), American physicist, known for his many contributions to general relativity theory
 * Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American poet
 * Ezra Schochet, rosh yeshiva, Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad/West Coast Talmudical Seminary, Los Angeles
 * Ezra Solomon (1920–2002), American economist
 * Ezra Stiles (1727–1795), American educator, president of Yale University
 * Ezra C. Stiles (1891–1974), American landscape architect
 * Ezra Clark Stillman (1907–1995), American linguist
 * Ezra Stoller (1915–2004), American photographer
 * Ezra Stone (1917–1994), American actor
 * Ezra Sutton (1849–1907), American baseball player
 * Ezra B. Taylor (1823–1912), American politician
 * Ezra Vogel (1930–2020), American scholar of East Asia
 * Ezra Weisz (born 1971), American voice actor

Surname

 * Daniel Ezra (born 1991), British actor
 * David Ezra (born 1947), American judge
 * Edward Isaac Ezra (1883–1921), Shanghai hotelier
 * George Ezra, British singer
 * Gideon Ezra (1937–2012), Israeli politician
 * Hen Ezra (born 1989), Israeli footballer
 * Michael Ezra (born 1973), Ugandan philanthropist
 * N.E.B. Ezra (1883–1936), founder of the Shanghai Zionist Association and Israel's Messenger
 * Members of the ibn Ezra family of Spanish Jews