Esequiel
Esequiel was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,223 among boys’ names; 2,944 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Esequiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 25 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Esequiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Esequiel?
#6,223 among boys’ names, 2025
Esequiel fell from #5,810 in 2015 to #6,223 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 8.2 per million.
59 babies in 1974, the peak
Esequiel peaked in 1974, when 59 boys were given it, #1,076 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,223 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,727 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,498 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,084 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,823 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,907 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,901 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,794 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,602 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,866 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,810 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,112 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,092 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,096 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,403 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,556 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,577 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,176 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,394 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,944 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,106 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 42 | #2,577 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,875 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,518 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,752 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 51 | #1,992 | 26.0 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,000 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,165 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,893 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,786 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,812 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,049 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,224 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,577 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,024 | 18.3 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,876 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,630 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,738 | 20.9 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,714 | 20.9 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,804 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 40 | #1,603 | 21.6 |
| 1984 | 48 | #1,370 | 26.6 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,607 | 20.6 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,495 | 23.1 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,277 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 44 | #1,437 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,605 | 20.9 |
| 1978 | 30 | #1,766 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,651 | 20.1 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,292 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,326 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,076 | 37.5 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,524 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,312 | 25.3 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,681 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,588 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,927 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 26 | #1,552 | 15.0 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,621 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,696 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,440 | 15.6 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,708 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,989 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,867 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,021 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,874 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,930 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,205 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,594 | 11.6 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,656 | 10.9 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,577 | 11.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,642 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,459 | 13.7 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,883 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,496 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,441 | 14.5 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,590 | 12.4 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,671 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,666 | 11.5 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,181 | 21.6 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,592 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,265 | 20.5 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,545 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,758 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,840 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,753 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,822 | 13.6 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,113 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,123 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 13 | #1,987 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,292 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,575 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,727 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,798 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,559 | 20.2 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,106 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,031 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,488 | 22.6 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,069 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,110 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,034 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,861 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,372 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,380 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,006 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,610 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,716 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,460 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,921 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,780 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,353 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,151 | 15.3 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,343 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,661 | 11.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,293 | 37.8 |
| 1881 | 5 | #912 | 49.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Esequiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Esequiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 116 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Esequiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Esequiel, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 2,944 Americans ever recorded as Esequiel. The median Esequiel alive today is 38 years old; half are between 25 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,382 people named Esequiel (15 women and girls, 2,367 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 61 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 268 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 631 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 542 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 221 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Esequiel born?
The states with the most babies named Esequiel are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,301 | #2,366 | 5.8× |
| California | 547 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Mexico | 55 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Esequiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Esequiel is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 5.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Esequiel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Esequiel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Esequiel.
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