Ezekiel

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Ezekiel is ranked 54th among boys in 2024 (5,390 births). Its best rank was 48th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #54down 4 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5,3900.31% of boys
Peak year: 20226,043 births
Best rank: #48in 2022
Since 1880: 78,441people given the name

Babies named Ezekiel, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

78,441 boys have been named Ezekiel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 6,043 births — 0.35% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 108 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Ezekiel
1880s	144
1890s	115
1900s	118
1910s	374
1920s	514
1930s	409
1940s	472
1950s	416
1960s	345
1970s	820
1980s	1,522
1990s	3,740
2000s	11,123
2010s	30,368
2020s	27,961

In 2022, its biggest year

Ezekiel was the 48th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Ezekiel

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.