Zacharia
Last seen for girls in 2013 at #16,547 · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1989 · 54 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,736since 1971
Zacharia over time
Rank among boys' names. Zacharia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,399 | 17 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #7,768 | 10 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,041 | 18 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,813 | 15 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,476 | 22 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,060 | 14 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,681 | 29 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,684 | 29 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,014 | 25 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,885 | 26 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,682 | 45 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,327 | 56 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,416 | 53 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,375 | 52 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,433 | 47 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,943 | 57 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,306 | 43 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | — | #2,235 | 40 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,933 | 47 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,817 | 50 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,758 | 50 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,716 | 52 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,721 | 50 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,621 | 54 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,919 | 40 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,516 | 54 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,645 | 43 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,974 | 31 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,007 | 29 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,724 | 35 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,979 | 27 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,140 | 24 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,426 | 20 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,996 | 27 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,729 | 17 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,310 | 21 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,134 | 22 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,202 | 21 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,508 | 17 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,120 | 11 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zacharia! It came in at #3,658, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zacharia is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#807 · 1 in 6,945
Best ever in a state: #597 in Missouri, 2002.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #807 | 5 | 1 in 6,945 |
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See more about Zacharia
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #5,399)
- 358 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #5,399)
- 1,715 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1989 at #1,516 (54 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 34,062 boys born in 2002 were named Zacharia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,516 in 1989, was only 1 in 37,054 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.7% of all boys named Zacharia (481) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 130 | #2,134 (1978) | #2,980 |
| 1980s | 307 | #1,516 (1989) | #2,014 |
| 1990s | 469 | #1,621 (1992) | #1,872 |
| 2000s | 481 | #1,875 (2000) | #2,394 |
| 2010s | 259 | #2,682 (2010) | #4,187 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,041 (2020) | #6,001 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zacharia in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 42,496 of them was named Zacharia, which outranked 81.8% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,399Wil48
- #2,399Willy48
- #2,399Wylie48
- #2,433Zacharia47
- #2,433Arlen47
- #2,433Breon47
- #2,433Briggs47
- #2,467Alston46
- #2,467Amon46
- #2,467Ash46
Tied with 33 names at #2,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.