Esekiel

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Esekiel has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Esekiel, 2010

1 in 739,000

Esekiel over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esekiel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Esekiel means

Esekiel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Esekiel is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Esekiel between 2010 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2010; its best national rank was #12,841 in 2010.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Esekiel?

Esekiel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010: 1 in 739,000; 5 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only: 1 in 384,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 512,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Esekiel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esekiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esekiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esekiel was born before 2010 — so the typical Esekiel is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Esekiel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2010 (5)
Years since peak: 15; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #12,841; 2010

Spellings of Esekiel

Esekiel is not the most common spelling — Ezekiel is, with 94.2% against Esekiel's <0.01%.

Ezekiel94.2%83,605
Esequiel3.3%2,944
Ezekial1.7%1,514
Zekiel0.82%729
Esekiel<0.01%5

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Esekiel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #12,841; 2010
Peak year: 2010; 5 that year
First recorded: 2010
Last recorded: 2010
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Esekiel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Gamliel Jhoziel Jayciel Kassiel Rainiel Atziel Azhiel Luriel Wadiel Zaydriel Xadriel Ezaiel Kasiel Maziel Jahniel Yankiel Naziel Odaniel Raffiel Danziel Ezquiel Jaudiel Joeliel Yasniel

Sibling names for Esekiel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jordynn Hayleigh Heidy Carleigh Paityn Shaniya Jocelynn Lailah

For a brother

Jerimiah Rylee Jordyn Giovanny Zavier Tristian Aaden Chace

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