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Ezell

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ezell has been given to 3,654 babies in the U.S. since 1897. 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 1951, with 62 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.

Babies named Ezell, 2024

1 in 557,000

Ezell over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ezell over time

In 2024, Ezell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18972024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ezell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ezell means

Ezell is a given name.

The naming story behind Ezell

Wikidata records Ezell as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121422980, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,243 boys were recorded with the name Ezell between 1897 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1951; its best national rank was #788 in 1907.

In the United States, 411 girls were recorded with the name Ezell between 1908 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,648 in 1912.

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.

How common is Ezell?

Ezell 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 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ezell 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ezell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ezells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ezell was born before 1946 — so the typical Ezell is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
15.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,452
People you could plausibly meet
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1940s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (489).

Is Ezell 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1951 (62)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#788
1907

Spellings of Ezell

Ezell is not the most common spelling — Odell is, with 29.1% against Ezell's 6.3%.

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 Ezell is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ezell was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 53,516 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 4,545
  2. 2Alabama1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 16,667
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Ezell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ezell is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ezell was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 365,031 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ezell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ezell 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
#788
1907
Peak year
1951
62 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,243
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,648
1912
Peak year
1927
22 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
1954
All-time count
411
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ezell

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

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Names with a curve like Ezell

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ezell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ezell

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

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