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When I named my son Ezra back in 2005, no one I knew or met had ever heard it (outside the Bible/history, and even that was rare), and I often got, "Oh! So it's a girl!" comments - apparently the name sounds super-feminine to a lot of people for whatever reason. It has always felt totally masculine to me, so Ezra for a girl had never crossed my mind, and it honestly got to the point where it was super annoying that people would immediately assume he was a girl as soon as they heard his name. I suppose any name can be unisex if you really want, but I think Esra would be much nicer for a girl - to me it sounds (or at least looks like it would sound) a bit like Esther, which makes it feel more feminine. It could even be used as a diminutive of Esther or a combination of Esther and Ezra.

This message was edited 7/12/2015, 4:02 PM