Yechezkel is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Yechezkel is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Yechezkel. In the SmartGenius ranking, Yechezkel is #3,499 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yechezkel.
In fact, the name Yechezkel did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Yechezkel seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,698, 38 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Yechezkel, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yechezkel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Yechezkel a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #4,063 - with a total of 21 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Meeting a man or boy named Yechezkel is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Yechezkel can be found in only two: New Jersey and New York. No other state currently has residents named Yechezkel. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Yechezkel living in one state or another. (If your name is Yechezkel and you live outside of New Jersey or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Yechezkel is in New Jersey, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New Jersey, only 0.00478% of all male residents are called Yechezkel – that’s just one in 20,930! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 561 men going by that name. So, if your name is Yechezkel, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.7% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With nine letters, the name Yechezkel is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.7% of all boys’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common boys’ name that starts with Y is Yahir.
If your name is Yechezkel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yechezkel, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Elephant
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Zebra
Koala
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yechezkel
Yechezkel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
E
C
H
E
Z
K
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
E
C
H
E
Z
K
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yechezkel sounds like this:
