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Ezekial vs Ezelio

American parents have registered 1,514 Ezekials since 1880, against 76 Ezelios. Ezekial is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezekial against Ezelio, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezekial Ezelio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Ezekial for 66 years and Ezelio for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ezekial Ezelio
Total US births 1,51476
Most in one year 6453
Babies in 2025 3023
Estimated living today 1,40080
Median age today 161
Peak year 20112024
Best rank 2,077th boys2,527th boys
Rank in 2025 3,658th4,396th
First recorded 19152024
Girls / boys 0 / 1,5140 / 76

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ezekials alive today are over 16; half the Ezelios are over 1. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ezekial and Ezelio.