Too popular?

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Is the name Ezra too popular? We really wanted a Christian name if we have a boy (due in a few weeks). We already have a Grace, I was loving the name Ezra and was totally sold but now DH said that George Ezra is bugging him and is everywhere and it will probably get even more popular/look like we have named the baby after him.

I agree with Mike, it will date & I dislike it. It sounds like something out of a Dickens novel. I've never met one.

I know 6 under 6!!! I do live in hipster ville though

As my DF and his family are Jewish, I have met a couple but they’re older guys. My form tutor in secondary school also had a son named Ezra but that was obviously years ago. I haven’t heard it used in recent years at all and I like it.

Thank you for everyone’s feedback, I really appreciate it!! Xx

I don't worry about 'popularity' of names - pick one that you like!

I think it could end up being popular but right now I don’t know one.

I know siblings who are Grace and Ezra, the names go well together.

That just really made me smile seeing Grace and Ezra written down in the same sentence when reading it back. I definitely think it’s our boys name 😍

Lovely name not that popular at all but it is a regional thing you can check on bounty regional baby names website.

I think it has the potential to be the next Noah. This may or may not bother you!

While we’re on the Old Testament, I recently met a little Ezekiel, nn Zeke. It really suited him.

Not too popular but agree it will be on the rise. As your dd is called Grace then I think it’s fine, she has a popular name and anything too unusual for your son might not work

There are quite a few in my school as it is popular in the Nigerian community. It's a nice name.

I would go with the David. There are no little ones. Or even Spencer.
David and Grace
Spencer and Grace
Ezra and Grace

Ezra was #91 in 2016 (official 2017 statistics not released yet) but it’s risen massively in popularity over the last few years.

So I’d expect it to have kept rising in popularity since then.

names.darkgreener.com/#ezra

Don't know any Ezras.

Ezra gets mentioned quite a lot on here, so people are definitely thinking about it as a name choice. I don't like it. I think it'll date. I also just associate it with fascism because I always think of Ezra Pound - the only Ezra I'm aware of - which isn't particularly fair, but that's my first thought.

How do names ‘dare’? Surely a person has their name and it’s their name!!

I do know a David...typically a much older persons name for my age bracket. He’s David, not ‘oh, there’s David. The guy with the old fashioned name!’

Some of you lot are cruel and make shit up! Don’t you have better things to do than criticise on a public forum? It’s boring to read, you change the whole time of a pretty beautiful time in a parent’s life.

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Makes me think of Ezra furman before George Ezra

Sessy The whole point is that it is a public forum - so people can ask the public what they think.

@Sessy19 I totally agree with everything you said! There are a lot of rude narrow minded people on this forum unfortunately.

Almost all names date to some extent because names tend to be cyclical in popularity.

But some names date more than others - a previously rarely used name that shoots to popularity (like Ezra) is one that’s likely to plummet in popularity just as rapidly, and much more likely to have a bearer who’s been born in a particular decade.

Unlike something well established like David, which despite a relative fall in popularity, is still in the top 100 boy’s names (#43 in 2016) and has been in the top 100 continuously since at least 1996.

names.darkgreener.com/#david

I know 3 baby boys called Ezra from my wider friendship circle.

2yr old nephew is ezra