Given name
Erza
“light spring breeze”
Erza is a given name from Albanian. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Erza goes back to a word meaning “light spring breeze.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Erza through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 443
- 104 boys · 339 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 27
- #5,781 for girls · #11,075 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −1%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 21 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,781 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 6.6% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 6 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (5).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Erza’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Erza
Characters named Erza: Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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