Esdras
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Ezra; Esdras (any of four books of the Bible)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iʒðɾɐʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esdras is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 191K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
11,038 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
any of four books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Bible.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Esdras is read(measured from records)
Esdras is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese52%
Ezra; Esdras (any of four books of the Bible)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish33%
Ezra (the book of the Bible)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hebreo: 'socorro'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English8.0%
any of four books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Bible.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Old Testament book, pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esdras counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 11,038 | 1 in 19K | 11K | Esdras | 108 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Esdras | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | #335 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Esdras | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,741 | 1 in 191K | 1.7K | Esdras | 149 |
| HN Honduras | #953 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Esdras | 24 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Esdras | 14 |
11,038 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esdras Heinrich Edzardib. 1703DE1703-1733; Theologe und Katechet, Verf. theol. und kirchenhist. Schriften, Sohn von: Edzardi, Sebastian
- Michel Esdras Bernierb. 1841CACanadian politician (1841–1921)
- Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georgesb. 1849CACanadian politician
- Esdras Hartleyb. 1892USAmerican art director (1892–1946)
- Esdras Minvilleb. 1896CACanadian economist and sociologist
- Lalãob. 1956BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian violonist and composer
- Esdras Ricardo Medina Minayab. 1967PEPeruvian politician
- Esdrasb. 1991FRFrench rapper
- Esdras Moralesb. 1995GTcyclist
- Esdras Amorimmusical artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 11K | #1,592 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.5K | #2,240 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 9K | #794 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 8.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 1.9K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Esdras mean?
- In Portuguese, Ezra; Esdras (any of four books of the Bible)
- Where does the name Esdras come from?
- any of four books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Bible. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Esdras?
- A machine transcription gives /iʒðɾɐʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Esdras a male or female name?
- Esdras is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Esdras?
- In the etymology graph, Ezra, Uzair and Uzayr are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Esdras have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Esdras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esdras.
- How common is the name Esdras?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,038 people named Esdras in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Esdras compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Esdras is the 335th most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esdrasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Esdras” — the 335th most common given name in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.