"Variant of Yechezkel (Ezekiel)"
The name Cheskel is commonly a male name from the "Yiddish" origin.
Cheskel is a Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Yechezkel, which is rendered in English as Ezekiel. Yiddish usage among Ashkenazi Jews produced several spoken forms of the Hebrew name, and Cheskel belongs to that group alongside the better known Chatzkel. The name is a phonetic adaptation of the Hebrew rather than a word with a Germanic root of its own; the Hebrew Yechezkel combines a verb meaning to be strong with el, the word for God.
The pronunciation of Cheskel is KHES-kel.
