Given name
Exequiel
Exequiel is a masculine given name from Spanish. It is used in Cebuano.
Original SpanishEzequiel
Meaning & origin
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
- —
- Too few births to compare
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.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Exequiel
- Exequiel PalaciosArgentine association football playerborn 1998
- Exequiel ZeballosArgentine association football playerborn 2002
- Exequiel BenavídezArgentine footballerborn 1989
- Exequiel FigueroaChilean basketball player1924–2005
- Exequiel Ramírezcyclist (1924-2000)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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