Yechezkel
Yechezkel was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,044 among boys’ names; 876 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yechezkel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yechezkel?
#4,044 among boys’ names, 2025
Yechezkel fell from #3,874 in 2015 to #4,044 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 15.8 per million.
38 babies in 2020, the peak
Yechezkel peaked in 2020, when 38 boys were given it, #3,070 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,044 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,684 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,704 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,838 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,352 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,070 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,340 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,087 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 15 | #6,046 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,303 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,874 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,612 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,576 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,243 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,985 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,233 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,091 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,736 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,305 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,379 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,702 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,256 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,604 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,035 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,995 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,195 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,304 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,860 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,443 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,943 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,041 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #10,205 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,791 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,101 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,086 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,394 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,145 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,466 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,440 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,910 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,588 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,208 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,133 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,578 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,512 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,346 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,749 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #4,005 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yechezkel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yechezkel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yechezkel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yechezkel, and how old are they?
An estimated 859 Americans named Yechezkel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 629 people named Yechezkel (0 women and girls, 629 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 702 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Yechezkel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 15 | #521 | 10.8× |
Where Yechezkel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yechezkel is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 10.8 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 Yechezkel 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 Yechezkel
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.
More about Yechezkel and names like it
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