Zacharias
#3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 53 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,074since 1930
Zacharias over time
Rank among boys' names. Zacharias 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #2,623 | 49 |
| 2020 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2019 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #2,122 | 66 |
| 2017 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #1,675 | 94 |
| 2015 | #1,931 | 75 |
| 2014 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #2,556 | 48 |
| 2009 | #2,099 | 65 |
| 2008 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #2,564 | 48 |
| 2006 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #2,075 | 57 |
| 2003 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #1,943 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #2,228 | 38 |
| 1996 | #1,986 | 44 |
| 1995 | #2,178 | 37 |
| 1994 | #1,868 | 45 |
| 1993 | #1,662 | 53 |
| 1992 | #1,981 | 40 |
| 1991 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zacharias! It came in at #4,001, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zacharias is popular in 1991
No state had 5 or more boys named Zacharias in 1991, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zacharias
- 324 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,848)
- 1,681 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #3,848)
- 1,917 spots since 2015 (#1,931 → #3,848)
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1993 at #1,662 (53 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,189 boys born in 2016 were named Zacharias (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,662 in 1993, was only 1 in 37,006 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.8% of all boys named Zacharias (638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,001 (1930) | #4,001 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 68 | #3,037 (1977) | #3,672 |
| 1980s | 200 | #2,161 (1986) | #2,610 |
| 1990s | 403 | #1,662 (1993) | #2,086 |
| 2000s | 511 | #1,943 (2002) | #2,282 |
| 2010s | 638 | #1,675 (2016) | #2,180 |
| 2020s | 249 | #2,167 (2020) | #3,082 |
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.
Zacharias in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 72,155 of them was named Zacharias, which outranked 74.4% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,406Wayland29
- #2,406Woody29
- #2,406Yonatan29
- #2,469Zacharias28
- #2,469Abdiel28
- #2,469Anish28
- #2,469Ansel28
- #2,544Aditya27
- #2,544Aiden27
- #2,544Akiva27
Tied with 74 names at #2,469; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.