Zakariah
- Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
- Given to boys 90.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 39 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 914since 1981
Zakariah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | #3,450 | 33 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,394 | 34 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | — | #3,347 | 34 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,518 | 31 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,596 | 30 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #2,929 | 39 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,991 | 39 |
| 2008 | — | #5,067 | 18 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | — | #3,528 | 27 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,368 | 28 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,838 | 22 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,259 | 27 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,228 | 27 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,341 | 16 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,052 | 15 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,327 | 13 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1981
The first year at least five boys were named Zakariah! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zakariah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zakariah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 176 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #3,450)
- 325 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #3,450)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2014 at #2,929 (39 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
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 47,283
- Highest: 1 in 47,283 boys born in 2021 were named Zakariah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,929 in 2014, was only 1 in 49,253 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 33.5% of all boys named Zakariah (306) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 28 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,665 |
| 1990s | 146 | #3,246 (1993) | #4,274 |
| 2000s | 256 | #2,991 (2009) | #3,741 |
| 2010s | 306 | #2,929 (2014) | #3,594 |
| 2020s | 178 | #3,180 (2021) | #3,867 |
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.
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