Ezel

#11,089 in 2025Boys' name

Eternity, endless time

Ezel has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #11,089 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Ezel, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ezel: meaning, origin, and history

Eternity, endless time

Arabic

What Ezel means

Ezel means “eternity, endless time”, associated with Ezel.

Origin, language, and formation

Ezel is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Ezel comes through Ottoman Turkish ازل and Arabic أَزَل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 274 boys were recorded with the name Ezel between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,594 in 1913.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,640 in 2020 to #11,089 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,109 in 2015 to #11,089 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ezel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 553,000; 6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #11,089; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 382,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ezel 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ezel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ezels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ezel was born before 1942 — so the typical Ezel is around 83 today.

Median birth year: 1942; About 83 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 43.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 135; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Ezel 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: +1,807; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,551; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +20; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 42.9%; Peak was 2018 (14)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,594; 1913

Spellings of Ezel

Ezel is not the most common spelling — Earl is, with 26.0% against Ezel's 0.02%.

Earl26.0%289,174
Joel25.2%279,655
Ezra9.6%106,761
Axel6.5%72,459
Abel5.9%66,037
Noel4.7%52,096
Gael4.4%49,079
Emil3.0%33,096

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.

Where Ezel is used

Across 1910–2025, Ezel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ezel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ezel around the world

Where Ezel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2009–2025
#1,705
in 2025
France
2009–2025
#894
in 2025
Canada
2017–2023
#3,103
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ezel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #11,089
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,551
Best rank ever: #2,594; 1913
Peak year: 2018; 14 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 274
Count in 2025: 6

Names similar to Ezel

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

Izel Eze Azel Ezer Atzel Ezeriah Ezekiah Ezera Anzel Ezelio Ezekio Axzel Hanzel Myzel Ezequias Azazel Ezechiel Ezekyel Danzel Akzel Ezekias Ezekeil Ezekial Donzel

Sibling names for Ezel

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

Annabell Abagail Sydnie Karleigh Sydni Rhianna Alysa Adelle

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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