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Yechezkel

#4,044 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ezekiel

Yechezkel has been given to 876 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #4,044 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Yechezkel, 2025

1 in 123,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yechezkel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ezekiel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yechezkel means

Yechezkel is a form of Ezekiel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yechezkel → 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, 876 boys were recorded with the name Yechezkel between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,070 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,070 in 2020 to #4,044 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,874 in 2015 to #4,044 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 Yechezkel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,044
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yechezkel 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yechezkel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yechezkels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yechezkel was born before 2009 — so the typical Yechezkel is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
876
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (256).

Is Yechezkel 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
−360
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−974
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−170
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.1%
Peak was 2020 (38)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,070
2020

Where Yechezkel is used

Across 1910–2025, Yechezkel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 29,429 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 33,333).

36 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333

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

Yechezkel around the world

Where Yechezkel 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Yechezkel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,044
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 974
Best rank ever
#3,070
2020
Peak year
2020
38 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
876
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Yechezkel

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

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Sibling names for Yechezkel

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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