In 2025, 46 US boys were named Zekiel, making it the 2,797th most common boys’ name of the year, up 595 places from #3,392 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 35 boys named Zekiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,345, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #3,512 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zekiel in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 7 babies. In all, 729 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 306 babies named Zekiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 470 US boys were named Zekiel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zekiel ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,282 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zykel and Zekial are summarised on this page.