Ezekiel

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ezekiel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ezekiel: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #54, and it stood at #198 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#54highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1040
1997	#661
1998	#813
1999	#776
2000	#751
2001	#728
2002	#805
2003	#813
2004	#760
2005	#615
2006	#504
2007	#519
2008	#649
2009	#544
2010	#477
2011	#501
2012	#415
2013	#440
2014	#402
2015	#399
2016	#394
2017	#330
2018	#333
2019	#286
2020	#298
2021	#244
2022	#249
2023	#235
2024	#233

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #233 among boys in England and Wales, #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, #327 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #404 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1040 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2019–2023
Highest recorded position: #54 among boys in New Zealand, in 2023 (recorded 2019–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #198 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ezekiel appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,535 births with the name.

Ezekiel across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ezekiel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#233 (2024)	#233 (2024)	29 of 29	2,535 (1996–2024)	209 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#198 (2025)	#198 (2025)	15 of 21	101 (2005–2025)	24 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#279 (2017)	#266 (2021)	#305 (2024)	8 of 8	40 (2017–2024)	7 (2021)
New Zealand · Boys	#86 (2019)	#54 (2023)	#54 (2023)	5 of 5	317 (2019–2023)	74 (2022)

Ezekiel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ezekiel in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	78	4 of 10	20
2000s	397	10 of 10	40
2010s	1,105	10 of 10	111
2020sbusiest	955	5 of 10	191

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 191 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 44, from 154 to 198.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ezekiel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #54 in New Zealand in 2023.

Ezekiel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#233	209	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#235	205	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#249	189	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#244	198	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#298	154	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#286	168	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#333	138	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#330	146	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#394	112	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#399	106	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#402	101	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#440	91	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#415	96	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#501	72	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#477	75	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#544	62	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#649	47	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#519	61	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#504	60	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#615	43	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#760	29	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#813	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#805	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#728	24	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#661	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	male	#54	72	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#60	74	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#94	53	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#85	59	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#86	59	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#272	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#285	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#266	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#198	24	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#327	12	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#343	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#380	10	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#414	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#404	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #54, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 209 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ezio · #2018, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elodie · #55, 30y
Tia · #53, 31y
Zion · #55, 30y
Lainey · #56, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kingston · #54, 23y
Abby · #55, 33y
Aoibhe · #55, 31y
Cadhla · #53, 28y

Ezekiel was ranked #54 in New Zealand · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ezekiel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ezekiel without appearing here.

Ezekiel moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #813 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #760 and #1347.
Fionn Compare
In 1997 they stood at #661 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #813 and #1263.
Daithi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #556 and #496 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #414 and #755.
Kasper Compare
In 2020 they stood at #646 and #646 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #414 and #755.

Moved ahead of Ezekiel

Tobias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #272 and #312 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2024 that had become #305 and #177.
Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #813 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #776 and #655.
Hudson Compare
In 2007 they stood at #519 and #538 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #649 and #538.
Elias Compare
In 2017 they stood at #279 and #318 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2018 that had become #416 and #319.

Moved the opposite way to Ezekiel

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ezekiel

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ezekiel went from #1040 to #233 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #54 in New Zealand in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ezekiel

Ezekiel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ezekiel across 4 official records

Ezekiel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ezekiel appears in

Popularity data

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Ezekiel at a glance

Ezekiel across 4 official records

Ezekiel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ezekiel appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Ezekiel and the names beside it

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