Meaning not yet researched.
Esequiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #913 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #913 in 1881; #6,227 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esequiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,227 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #913.
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Esequiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #913 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 59 (1974).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Esequiel, making it the 6,227th most common boys’ name of the year, down 496 places from #5,731 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 16 boys named Esequiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #913, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 59, in 1974. For comparison, it was #5,814 in 2015 and #1,442 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esequiel in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 2,944 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 447 babies named Esequiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 166 US boys were named Esequiel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ezequiel (20,811 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Esequiel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,227 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,731 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,502 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,088 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,828 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #4,911 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #6,906 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,798 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #5,870 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,814 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,116 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,094 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,102 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,405 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,560 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,579 |
| 2008 | — | — | 36 | #3,178 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,945 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,110 |
| 2004 | — | — | 42 | #2,581 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,880 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,522 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,757 |
| 2000 | — | — | 51 | #1,996 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #2,003 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,168 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,896 |
| 1996 | — | — | 51 | #1,790 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,817 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,054 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,229 |
| 1992 | — | — | 56 | #1,582 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,030 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,881 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,636 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,743 |
| 1987 | — | — | 39 | #1,716 |
| 1986 | — | — | 34 | #1,806 |
| 1985 | — | — | 40 | #1,604 |
| 1984 | — | — | 48 | #1,371 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,608 |
| 1982 | — | — | 42 | #1,496 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,277 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,437 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,605 |
| 1978 | — | — | 30 | #1,766 |
| 1977 | — | — | 33 | #1,651 |
| 1976 | — | — | 47 | #1,292 |
| 1975 | — | — | 43 | #1,326 |
| 1974 | — | — | 59 | #1,076 |
| 1973 | — | — | 32 | #1,524 |
| 1972 | — | — | 41 | #1,312 |
| 1971 | — | — | 28 | #1,682 |
| 1970 | — | — | 29 | #1,589 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,928 |
| 1968 | — | — | 26 | #1,553 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,622 |
| 1966 | — | — | 21 | #1,697 |
| 1965 | — | — | 29 | #1,441 |
| 1964 | — | — | 22 | #1,709 |
| 1963 | — | — | 17 | #1,990 |
| 1962 | — | — | 19 | #1,868 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,022 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,875 |
| 1959 | — | — | 18 | #1,931 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,206 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,595 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,657 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,578 |
| 1954 | — | — | 22 | #1,643 |
| 1953 | — | — | 27 | #1,460 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,884 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,497 |
| 1950 | — | — | 26 | #1,442 |
| 1949 | — | — | 22 | #1,591 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,672 |
| 1947 | — | — | 21 | #1,667 |
| 1946 | — | — | 35 | #1,182 |
| 1945 | — | — | 18 | #1,593 |
| 1944 | — | — | 28 | #1,265 |
| 1943 | — | — | 21 | #1,546 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,758 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,840 |
| 1940 | — | — | 16 | #1,753 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,822 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,113 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,123 |
| 1936 | — | — | 13 | #1,987 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,292 |
| 1934 | — | — | 20 | #1,575 |
| 1933 | — | — | 17 | #1,727 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,798 |
| 1931 | — | — | 21 | #1,559 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,106 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,032 |
| 1928 | — | — | 25 | #1,488 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,069 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,110 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,035 |
| 1924 | — | — | 19 | #1,861 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,373 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,381 |
| 1921 | — | — | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,610 |
| 1919 | — | — | 20 | #1,717 |
| 1918 | — | — | 25 | #1,461 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,922 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,781 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,354 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,152 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,344 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,662 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,294 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #913 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).