Esequiel
Recorded 1881–2025 · United States
Esequiel was most popular in 1974, when 59 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,570 that year. In 2025 it ranked #12,918, with 14 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,944 people named Esequiel.
Esequiel over time
How old is the name Esequiel?
Esequiel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 116 of the 145 years since.
How many people are named Esequiel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,944 American births named Esequiel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,230 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Esequiel in 2025?
14 American babies were named Esequiel in 2025, ranking #12,918 that year.
Is Esequiel getting more or less popular?
Esequiel is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 17 births a year across 2021–2025 against 19 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Esequiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Esequiel is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,944 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Esequiel?
Roughly 2,230 Americans named Esequiel are alive today — 76% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 38 years old, and half are between 25 and 53.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Esequiel is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org