Ezell
Ezell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 788th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195162 births
- Best rank
- #788in 1907
- Since 1897
- 3,654people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,243 boys have been named Ezell in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1940s alone account for 15%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 411 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ezell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 64 | |
| 1910s | 293 | |
| 1920s | 460 | |
| 1930s | 473 | |
| 1940s | 489 | |
| 1950s | 476 | |
| 1960s | 295 | |
| 1970s | 239 | |
| 1980s | 139 | |
| 1990s | 147 | |
| 2000s | 81 | |
| 2010s | 46 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Ezell was the 894th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1951 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Ezell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Stanfordpeak 1954
- Altonpeak 1937
- Odellpeak 1922
- Boycepeak 1934
- Collispeak 1952
- Wymanpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.