Any opinions on Ezra?

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DP really likes it. I'm worried it'll sound a bit too 'jewish' though, and that people will make assumptions about ds's background.

We've also been asked 'isn't that a girl's name?', but as far as I know that was just the enquirer being easily confused.

We were going to call ds2 Ezra, but then he turned out to be dd. I think it's a fab name, and I think of it more as chapel Methodist than Jewish. I was also quite keen on the writings of Ezra Pound when I was a teenager, although he was a fairly terrible person in many ways.

Isn't Ezra the name of the female baddy in the emperor's new groove?

Ok googled it and she was spelt Yzma. An awful lot of Jewish stuff came up on google first though..

I really like Ezra. Always a boy's name IMO.

That is the name we will be using for DS2 - we love it!

sounds more Puritan than Jewish to me, culturally

but really, these days, I don't think many people will make those connections, they will just think he is called Ezra

I like it, personally

I like it too. Definately boys name. Suggests someone sensitive yet strong to me. Creative.

My Jewish friend is called Ezra. I love the name. The only problem he has with it, is that many people mishear the name and say, 'oh, you're called Israel'. Maybe it's because he has an American accent. Nonetheless, very good name.

Reminds me of the poem about Ezra Pound who was lost at sea and never found.
I like the name though.

Cheers kreecher! [hhmm]

Thanks all, though. We've got a couple of months yet anyway, but I am starting to warm to it.

I love the name Ezra! We were toying with it as a name for DS, but decided against it as it doesn't fully go with our surname.

Even though DH and I liked it, every time we mentioned it to anyone they did or faces. Really annoyed me!

Love it! One of my fave names!

I like it, although I would assume it was a girls name, I guess it can be either

I like really it, but I met a read haired freckly boy called Ezra, and I didn't think it suited him.

Love it.

Nooooo this is my secret name!!!

:P

Utterly lovely and my friends all seemed to react positively to it too. Use it!!

Hate it, sorry.

I read somewhere that David Baddiel's son is called Ezra.

To me it seems less Jewish and more new media / frontier in style. The spelling makes me just a bit too girly for me. Prefer Levi, Noah or Asher.

Lovely name, and I have the same impression as Nooka (chapel Methodist in the UK context). Sounds like a 1700s name to me, like Josiah Wedgewood.

Definitely Jewish. It's one of the books in the Old Testament / Torah.

It's Old Testament, which means that it can/will be used by both Jews and Christians. I can perhaps confess that we (partly) got the idea from watching very old episodes of Emerdale Farm - the pub landlord (Amos) had a ne'er do well brother Ezra. They were chapel.

We have a puppy called Amos now

Love it

Yes, it can be used by Christians as well as Jews, however I would say that it is a Jewish name as the Old Testament was a Jewish text before Christianity existed.

I love it. Before I MCd that was my favourite for a boy.