Zebadiah
#3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 25 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,112since 1974
Zebadiah over time
Rank among boys' names. Zebadiah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #4,571 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #4,180 | 23 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #3,794 | 22 |
| 2001 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #2,199 | 42 |
| 1998 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #2,204 | 23 |
| 1980 | #2,162 | 24 |
| 1979 | #2,048 | 25 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zebadiah! It came in at #3,837, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Zebadiah is popular in 1981
No state had 5 or more boys named Zebadiah in 1981, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zebadiah
- 988 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #3,583)
- 2,116 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #3,583)
- 192 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #3,583)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1979 at #2,048 (25 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,651 boys born in 2001 were named Zebadiah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,048 in 1979, was only 1 in 68,861 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.7% of all boys named Zebadiah (252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 79 | #2,048 (1979) | #3,282 |
| 1980s | 211 | #2,071 (1985) | #2,566 |
| 1990s | 249 | #2,199 (1999) | #3,021 |
| 2000s | 252 | #2,117 (2001) | #4,018 |
| 2010s | 197 | #3,775 (2015) | #4,917 |
| 2020s | 124 | #3,583 (2025) | #4,876 |
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.
Zebadiah in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 77,877 of them was named Zebadiah, which outranked 69.8% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,138Vanessa24
- #2,138Wendy24
- #2,138West24
- #2,204Zebadiah23
- #2,204Alonza23
- #2,204April23
- #2,204Armondo23
- #2,270Adnan22
- #2,270Andrey22
- #2,270Asim22
Tied with 65 names at #2,204; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.