boys:
263 births since 1913
#4323 (6th percentile)
overall:
263 births since 1913
#7476 (3rd percentile)
The name Ezel is the #7,476 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 263 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,323 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 263 births since 1913.
Ezel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Ezel is available in 36 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ezel reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #904) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ezel ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 53.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ezel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ezel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Ezel is pronounced as EE-zuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-zuhl, at 30.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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