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Ezrael vs Ezriel

American parents have registered 1,006 Ezriels since 1880, against 552 Ezraels. Ezriel is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ezrael against Ezriel, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ezrael Ezriel

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 37 years in which either name was published, Ezriel for 35 years and Ezrael for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Ezrael Ezriel
Total US births 5521,006
Most in one year 7384
Babies in 2025 7383
Estimated living today 5501,000
Median age today 47
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 2,035th boys1,891st boys
Rank in 2025 2,035th1,886th
First recorded 20091976
Girls / boys 0 / 5520 / 1,006

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 Ezriels alive today are over 7; half the Ezraels are over 4. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ezrael Ezriel
England and Wales 357

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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