Ezel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: eternity, time stretching back without beginning
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ezˈæl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ezel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 21K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
eternity, time stretching back without beginning
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ezel is read(measured from records)
Ezel is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish75%
eternity, time stretching back without beginning
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Başlangıcı, öncesi olmayan geçmiş zaman, öncesizlik.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English8.5%
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ezel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | #97 | Ezel | 54 |
| PH Philippines | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Ezel | 8 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 276K | 445 | — | 1 |
| SY Syria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Ezel | 4 |
| US United States | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 163 | Ezel | 24 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 6 | Ezel | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Ezel | 6 |
| AL Albania | 30 | 1 in 102K | 30 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ezel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, donkey, ass (Equus asinus or Equus asinus asinus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, donkey (domestic animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, donkey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ezel Akayb. 1961TRTurkish actor and director (born 1961)
- Ezel Kılıçb. 1961TRTurkish painter (born 1961)
- Ezeli Doğanayb. 1966TRnot in their usual nameTurkish writer (born 1966)
- Ezel Dorukb. 1989TRTurkish actor (born 1989)
- Sümeyye Koçb. 1995TRnot in their usual nameTurkish novelist (born 1995)
- Ezel SalıkTRTurkish actor and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 445 | #1,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 163 | #37,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46 | #37,394 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 30 | #5,814 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 6 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2007 | — | #97 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ezel mean, and where does it come from?
- eternity, time stretching back without beginning Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ezel?
- A machine transcription gives /ezˈæl/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Ezel a male or female name?
- Ezel is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ezel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Ezel in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ezel.
- How common is the name Ezel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Ezel in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ezel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ezelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ezel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.