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“God strengthens” — Hebrew via Greek origin
Boy's name · #61 in the US (2025) · 2020s
Ezekiel is near its high-water mark: it reached #48 in 2022 and still ranked #61 in 2025. About 84,000 boys have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, strongest in the West today. Ezekiel's short forms are Zeke and Zekiel. Together with its spelling variant Ezequiel (#348), Ezekiel would rank around #45 with about 6,000 births last year — the newborns split about 84/16 between Ezekiel and Ezequiel.
Around the world: #3 in Philippines (2024) · #40 in New Zealand (2025) · #85 in Australia (QLD) (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 139 notable people named Ezekiel:
Lawyers & judges appear 2.68× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ezekiel B. Turner, United States federal judge.
Similar names: Ezequiel · Axel · Ezra · Jude · Adriel · Elliot
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