Ezel
Ezel was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,089 among boys’ names; 274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ezel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ezel mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Ezel is “a unisex given name from Arabic” Its etymology gives the sense “eternity, endless time” (ازل).
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ازل (Ezel, “eternity, endless time”), from Arabic أَزَل (ʔazal).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ezel?
#11,089 among boys’ names, 2025
Ezel rose from #11,109 in 2015 to #11,089 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
14 babies in 2018, the peak
Ezel peaked in 2018, when 14 boys were given it, #6,127 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,089 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,896 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,418 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,585 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,639 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,903 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,127 | 7.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,352 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,109 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,348 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #12,721 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,367 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,667 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,858 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,063 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,120 | 2.6 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,212 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,743 | 3.6 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,678 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,283 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,842 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,504 | 5.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,393 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,822 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,851 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,573 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,503 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,518 | 6.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,967 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,520 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,305 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,745 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,379 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,340 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,288 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,187 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,426 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,594 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ezel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ezel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ezel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ezel, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Ezel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 209 people named Ezel (46 women and girls, 163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ezel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,235 babies since 1880, Ezel is the second most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 92 babies (6.5%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Ezel and names like it
- Compare Ezel and EzellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEzel peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ezel since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ezel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Ezel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ezel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.