Given name

Exequiel

Exequiel is a masculine given name from Spanish. It is used in Cebuano.

Original SpanishEzequiel

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Exequiel comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Ezequiel.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Exequiel through the years

Babies since 1880
54
54 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2008
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Exequiel in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1993–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 599 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Exequiel’s family of names

In Cebuano usage, Exequiel was borrowed from the Spanish form Ezequiel.

Walk Exequiel’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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