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Haskel

Boys' name

Variant of Ezekiel

Haskel has been given to 1,160 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1924, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Haskel, 2001

1 in 748,000

Haskel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haskel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ezekiel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haskel means

Haskel is a variant of Ezekiel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Haskel is used in Yiddish (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Haskel → Ezekiel. The family’s meaning is “God strengthens”, recorded in English with the source elements Y'ḥezqēl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ezekiel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,160 boys were recorded with the name Haskel between 1907 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,146 in 1924.

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 Haskel?

Haskel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haskel 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haskel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haskels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haskel was born before 1931 — so the typical Haskel is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
221
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1920s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (318).

Is Haskel 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 1924 (40)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,146
1924

Spellings of Haskel

Haskel is not the most common spelling — Markel is, with 15.8% against Haskel's 3.9%.

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 Haskel is used

Across 1910–2025, Haskel was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 95,643 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Haskel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haskel 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
#1,146
1924
Peak year
1924
40 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
1,160
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haskel

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

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Sibling names for Haskel

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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