Is Ezra is a girl or a boy

[Kieran152010]

Ezra is a girl’s name! just y’know who she is a girls name

I think it's more commonly a boys name.

Just y’know you’re wrong.

I've never heard it used for a girl.

Ezra is traditionally a boy’s name of Hebrew origin, meaning “help.” However, like many names today, it’s becoming more gender-neutral, and some do choose it for girls. So while it’s not traditionally a girl’s name, it can be used for any gender.

I've known lots of boy Ezra's, never any girls.

It’s a (biblical) boys' name. I’ve never heard of a female Ezra but know of several male ones (e.g. the famous US poet Ezra Pound).

I know a female Ezra. Ino idea how common it is, but it suits her.

It's a boys name.
I mean obviously it could be used for a girl because people can name their children what they want - but traditionally it's a boys name.

Clearly a boy’s name.

i know a girl with that name. Never heard of it before I met her

I know of two, female, one in her 40's, the other a teen.

It is both. I have taught several Turkish/Eastern European girl Ezras and two white British boy Ezras.

I know 2 Ezras and they're both men.

I know an Ezrae which is a girl. I presumed that was the girl version.

Only ever known it too be a boys name

Only know boy Ezras but it could be unisex, sounds OK either way.

It's a boy's name. Same as Aubrey and James.

Azra is a lovely girls name

I don’t think it really sounds masculine - masculine names don’t tend to end with an A (in English, at any rate).

I just “know” it’s a male name. But if I didn’t know that, I would assume female because of the A.

Ezra? Bloke who the eponymous book is about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra

but while currently it’s a “boys’ name”,if people are starting to call their girls Ezra, the first ones may get queried but in a generation or two it’ll have become unisex and likely eventually to be seen as a “girls’ name”, as with eg Hilary, Vivian, Evelyn etc. It’s probably already happening to Elisha, another biblical male name.

But its not an English name, so how English names usually end are irrelevant?

As pp's have said, it's a very ancient, biblical, Hebrew male name. The fact that some girls are also called it doesn't change that.

But its not an English name, so how English names usually end are irrelevant?

As pp's have said, it's a very ancient, biblical, Hebrew male name. The fact that some girls are also called it doesn't change that.

I'd instantly assume boy still, despite actually teaching a female Ezra once. It's predominantly male. A name being used occasionally on the other sex doesn't automatically make it unisex, just like I fail to accept James as a unisex name.

For what it's worth, it took me weeks after receiving that class list to clock the F next to her name and realise she was female (this was before I met her). With classically unisex names you think to check, but it didn't even occur to me to check what sex Ezra was.

Ezra is definitely a male name.
i believe Esra is a Turkish girls' name.