Meaning not yet researched.
Ezequiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 943 in 2025. Its best rank was #335 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #335 in 2022; #348 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ezequiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#348 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #335.
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Ezequiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 943 boys in 2025. Peak: #335 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 1,023 (2024).
In 2025, 943 US boys were named Ezequiel, making it the 348th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #338 in 2024. That is 80 fewer than the 1,023 boys named Ezequiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #335, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,023, in 2024. For comparison, it was #575 in 2015 and #2,250 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ezequiel in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 20,811 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,803 babies named Ezequiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,587 US boys were named Ezequiel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,023. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,811 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ezequiel ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #157 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ezekiel (83,657 babies since 1880) and Esequiel (2,944 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eziquiel, Esiquiel and Ecequiel are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eziquiel (21), Esiquiel (10), Ecequiel (5), Ezequil (5), Eziquel (5).
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 Ezequiel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 238 | #157 | #350 |
| California | 246 | #158 | #427 |
| Arizona | 45 | #194 | #358 |
| New Mexico | 10 | #203 | #369 |
| Nevada | 12 | #251 | #284 |
| Illinois | 30 | #355 | #652 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #366 | #502 |
| Colorado | 17 | #373 | #489 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #379 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #393 | #464 |
| Florida | 49 | #396 | #524 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #410 | #856 |
| Washington | 17 | #431 | #651 |
| Virginia | 17 | #460 | #823 |
| Maryland | 10 | #485 | #506 |
| Oregon | 7 | #492 | #581 |
| Indiana | 14 | #495 | — |
| New York | 32 | #507 | #632 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #517 | #478 |
| Georgia | 19 | #548 | #679 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #569 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #572 | #416 |
| Utah | 7 | #580 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #588 | #669 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #619 | #406 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #736 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #821 | #626 |
| Michigan | 8 | #861 | #1,129 |
| Missouri | 5 | #904 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,049 | #934 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 943 | #348 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,023 | #338 |
| 2023 | — | — | 991 | #336 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,013 | #335 |
| 2021 | — | — | 971 | #336 |
| 2020 | — | — | 862 | #362 |
| 2019 | — | — | 794 | #394 |
| 2018 | — | — | 722 | #425 |
| 2017 | — | — | 701 | #443 |
| 2016 | — | — | 567 | #521 |
| 2015 | — | — | 488 | #575 |
| 2014 | — | — | 488 | #571 |
| 2013 | — | — | 468 | #564 |
| 2012 | — | — | 510 | #517 |
| 2011 | — | — | 455 | #559 |
| 2010 | — | — | 445 | #571 |
| 2009 | — | — | 467 | #566 |
| 2008 | — | — | 520 | #522 |
| 2007 | — | — | 487 | #528 |
| 2006 | — | — | 464 | #546 |
| 2005 | — | — | 437 | #549 |
| 2004 | — | — | 404 | #563 |
| 2003 | — | — | 392 | #568 |
| 2002 | — | — | 398 | #558 |
| 2001 | — | — | 359 | #574 |
| 2000 | — | — | 331 | #597 |
| 1999 | — | — | 356 | #562 |
| 1998 | — | — | 321 | #590 |
| 1997 | — | — | 333 | #565 |
| 1996 | — | — | 329 | #561 |
| 1995 | — | — | 286 | #605 |
| 1994 | — | — | 236 | #673 |
| 1993 | — | — | 188 | #763 |
| 1992 | — | — | 179 | #781 |
| 1991 | — | — | 163 | #810 |
| 1990 | — | — | 177 | #765 |
| 1989 | — | — | 115 | #954 |
| 1988 | — | — | 119 | #870 |
| 1987 | — | — | 96 | #966 |
| 1986 | — | — | 93 | #949 |
| 1985 | — | — | 75 | #1,068 |
| 1984 | — | — | 81 | #988 |
| 1983 | — | — | 81 | #983 |
| 1982 | — | — | 103 | #879 |
| 1981 | — | — | 97 | #907 |
| 1980 | — | — | 99 | #902 |
| 1979 | — | — | 68 | #1,078 |
| 1978 | — | — | 63 | #1,100 |
| 1977 | — | — | 67 | #1,055 |
| 1976 | — | — | 76 | #959 |
| 1975 | — | — | 64 | #1,031 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,205 |
| 1973 | — | — | 63 | #1,017 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,220 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,297 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,302 |
| 1969 | — | — | 34 | #1,382 |
| 1968 | — | — | 24 | #1,620 |
| 1967 | — | — | 25 | #1,551 |
| 1966 | — | — | 36 | #1,268 |
| 1965 | — | — | 28 | #1,463 |
| 1964 | — | — | 32 | #1,389 |
| 1963 | — | — | 27 | #1,521 |
| 1962 | — | — | 25 | #1,597 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,901 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,562 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,822 |
| 1958 | — | — | 29 | #1,457 |
| 1957 | — | — | 26 | #1,558 |
| 1956 | — | — | 30 | #1,424 |
| 1955 | — | — | 27 | #1,493 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,915 |
| 1953 | — | — | 30 | #1,386 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,103 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,859 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,250 |
| 1949 | — | — | 23 | #1,554 |
| 1948 | — | — | 25 | #1,470 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,945 |
| 1946 | — | — | 24 | #1,446 |
| 1945 | — | — | 18 | #1,596 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,594 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,011 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,508 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,122 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,735 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,097 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,376 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,556 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,669 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,296 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,963 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,134 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,375 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,031 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,000 |
| 1929 | — | — | 16 | #1,955 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #1,996 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,976 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,114 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,120 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,389 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,826 |
| 1922 | — | — | 23 | #1,604 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,420 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,507 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,202 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,307 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,029 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,433 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,548 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,670 |
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).