Boy

Zekiel

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,797
46 boys
2015
#3,512
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Zekiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,345 in 2023.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #2,345 in 2023; #2,797 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zekiel in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,797 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,345.

Babies in 2025
46
Since 1880
729
Years on record
31

Babies named Zekiel, every year since 1880

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Boys

Zekiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,345 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 60 (2023).

About the name Zekiel

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.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Zykel (40), Zekial (6).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Zekiel in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Zekiel by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Texas7#2,282—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——46#2,797
2024——35#3,392
2023——60#2,345
2022——57#2,467
2021——58#2,372
2020——50#2,585
2019——52#2,555
2018——44#2,794
2017——40#3,004
2016——28#3,882
2015——32#3,512
2014——11#7,555
2013——12#7,015
2012——23#4,389
2011——23#4,354
2010——18#5,249
2009——11#7,686
2008——15#6,064
2007——19#4,994
2006——15#5,778
2005——7#10,138
2004——7#9,938
2003——9#7,822
2002——8#8,452
2001——10#6,930
2000——5#12,112
1998——7#8,473
1997——6#9,259
1994——9#6,366
1992——5#9,813
1989——7#6,938

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).