Zekiel

#2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births

Peak · boys
2023 · 60 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
729
since 1989

Zekiel over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zekiel has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,76546
2024#3,33535
2023#2,31560
2022#2,43857
2021#2,34958
2020#2,54650
2019#2,52552
2018#2,74844
2017#2,95140
2016#3,77628
2015#3,43132
2014#7,04811
2013#6,60312
2012#4,25123
2011#4,22123
2010#5,04718
2009#7,23611
2008#5,76715
2007#4,80819
2006#5,52515
2005#9,1157
2004#8,9277
2003#7,2459
2002#7,6438
2001#6,44510
2000#10,3495
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1997#8,1106
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five boys were named Zekiel! It came in at #6,229, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Zekiel is popular in 2012

No state had 5 or more boys named Zekiel in 2012, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zekiel
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 570 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #2,765)
  • 219 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #2,765)
  • 666 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #2,765)
Rise & fade · boys
34 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 2023 at #2,315 (60 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,510
  • Highest: 1 in 28,510 boys born in 2023 were named Zekiel (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 42.0% of all boys named Zekiel (306) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s7#6,229 (1989)#6,229
1990s27#5,868 (1994)#7,493
2000s106#4,808 (2007)#7,306
2010s283#2,525 (2019)#4,260
2020s306#2,315 (2023)#2,625

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zekiel in 2012

boys
#4,251
23 births · 1 in 82,476 boys

Top boys' names in 2012

  1. #1Jacob19,110
  2. #2Mason18,994
  3. #3Ethan17,697
  4. #4Noah17,385
  5. #5William16,917
  6. #6Liam16,824
  7. #7Michael16,211
  8. #8Jayden16,152
  9. #9Alexander15,259
  10. #10Aiden14,924
  11. #4,251Zekiel23
More about 2012

boys

1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 82,476 of them was named Zekiel, which outranked 70.2% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zekiel
  1. #4,131Yeriel24
  2. #4,131Zahmir24
  3. #4,131Zaven24
  4. #4,251Zekiel23
  5. #4,251Aaryn23
  6. #4,251Adarius23
  7. #4,251Adithya23
  8. #4,390Aadit22
  9. #4,390Adonay22
  10. #4,390Adrean22

Tied with 138 names at #4,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,237Jionni#2,105 → #868
  2. ↑ 551Foster#1,544 → #993
  3. ↑ 504Major#990 → #486
  4. ↑ 433Kase#1,395 → #962
  5. ↑ 428Jael#1,411 → #983
Fallers
  1. ↓ 241Jerimiah#889 → #1,130
  2. ↓ 235Lathan#932 → #1,167
  3. ↓ 229Jorden#676 → #905
  4. ↓ 209Kyron#886 → #1,095
  5. ↓ 207Jakobe#928 → #1,135

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012 →