Zadok

#4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births

Peak · boys
2012 · 33 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
536
since 1980

Zadok over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zadok has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #3,297, 2012boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#4,70721
2024#4,07226
2023#3,34735
2022#3,53332
2021#4,62821
2020#3,91826
2019#4,95119
2018#4,35423
2017#3,51831
2016#4,32723
2015#3,59130
2014#3,89126
2013#3,49730
2012#3,29733
2011#4,50921
2010#4,67820
2009#5,80015
2008#3,92126
2007#10,9216
2006#6,09413
2005#11,4725
2004#9,9486
2003#8,6437
2002#7,6438
2001#9,2436
2000#6,8399
1999#9,9125
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five boys were named Zadok! It came in at #4,495, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1981–1999, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Zadok is popular in 2017

No state had 5 or more boys named Zadok in 2017, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zadok
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 635 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #4,707)
  • 789 spots since 2020 (#3,918 → #4,707)
  • 1,116 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 2012 at #3,297 (33 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 48,874
  • Highest: 1 in 48,874 boys born in 2023 were named Zadok (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,297 in 2012, was only 1 in 57,483 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 47.8% of all boys named Zadok (256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s8#4,495 (1980)#4,495
1990s10#9,265 (1997)#9,589
2000s101#3,921 (2008)#8,052
2010s256#3,297 (2012)#4,061
2020s161#3,347 (2023)#4,034

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.

Zadok in 2017

boys
#3,518
31 births · 1 in 59,708 boys

Top boys' names in 2017

  1. #1Liam18,874
  2. #2Noah18,507
  3. #3William15,046
  4. #4James14,362
  5. #5Logan14,061
  6. #6Benjamin13,858
  7. #7Mason13,602
  8. #8Elijah13,449
  9. #9Jacob13,269
  10. #10Oliver13,224
  11. #3,518Zadok31
More about 2017

boys

1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 59,708 of them was named Zadok, which outranked 75.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zadok
  1. #3,440Vinson32
  2. #3,440Virlan32
  3. #3,440Wellington32
  4. #3,518Zadok31
  5. #3,518Aadhav31
  6. #3,518Adalberto31
  7. #3,518Andrik31
  8. #3,586Aaren30
  9. #3,586Aarish30
  10. #3,586Abrar30

Tied with 67 names at #3,518; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. ↑ 497Wells#1,413 → #916
  2. ↑ 419Kairo#1,221 → #802
  3. ↑ 339Caspian#1,199 → #860
  4. ↑ 313Colson#1,049 → #736
  5. ↑ 311Kace#1,183 → #872
Fallers
  1. ↓ 415Riaan#861 → #1,276
  2. ↓ 292Chevy#980 → #1,272
  3. ↓ 245Kylo#904 → #1,149
  4. ↓ 226Braeden#993 → #1,219
  5. ↓ 194Kamdyn#809 → #1,003

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017 →