Exequiel

Boys' name

From Spanish Ezequiel; literal meaning unconfirmed

Exequiel has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2008, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Exequiel, 2024

1 in 669,000

Exequiel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Exequiel: meaning, origin, and history

From Spanish Ezequiel; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Exequiel means

Exequiel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Exequiel is used in Cebuano.

Exequiel comes through Spanish Ezequiel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Exequiel between 1993 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2008; its best national rank was #9,173 in 1993.

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 Exequiel?

Exequiel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Exequiel 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Exequiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Exequiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Exequiel was born before 2013 — so the typical Exequiel is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 46.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 90.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 54; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 46.3% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Exequiel 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 2008 (8)
Years since peak: 17; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,173; 1993

Spellings of Exequiel

Exequiel is not the most common spelling — Ezequiel is, with 87.4% against Exequiel's 0.23%.

Ezequiel87.4%20,811
Esequiel12.4%2,944
Exequiel0.23%54

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.

Exequiel 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: #9,173; 1993
Peak year: 2008; 8 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 54
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Exequiel

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

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Sibling names for Exequiel

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

Jaylen Yamilet Dalilah Desire Jaidyn Kalia Abagail Rihanna

For a brother

Kaeden Gavyn Tyshawn Marley Aditya Aydan Aydin Javion

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