girls:
411 births since 1908
#5305 (7th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1897
#2195 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1897
#4538 (41st percentile)
The name Ezell is the #4,538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,648 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 41.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,195 (52.1% percentile) for all time with 3,237 births since 1897. For girls, it ranks #5,305 (7.2% percentile) for all time with 411 births since 1908.
Ezell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for boys and 1908 for girls). Birth data for Ezell is available in 119 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (119 years for boys and 37 years for girls). 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.
The name Ezell has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ezell were boys.
For boys, Ezell reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #473) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 76 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ezell ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ezell reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #586) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 20 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1954.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ezell".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Ezell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.9% confident that Ezell is pronounced as ee-ZEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-zehl, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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