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Ezelio vs Ezequiel

American parents have registered 20,811 Ezequiels since 1880, against 76 Ezelios. Ezequiel is still ahead, with 943 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezelio against Ezequiel, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezelio Ezequiel

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

Ezequiel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Ezelio had 53 and Ezequiel had 1,023.

Side by side

  Ezelio Ezequiel
Total US births 7620,811
Most in one year 531,023
Babies in 2025 23943
Estimated living today 8020,000
Median age today 113
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 2,527th boys338th boys
Rank in 2025 4,396th348th
First recorded 20241912
Girls / boys 0 / 760 / 20,811

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 Ezequiels alive today are over 13; half the Ezelios are over 1. That is 12 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: Ezelio and Ezequiel.