Zechariah
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #855 for boys in 2025, 285 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 295 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,351since 1971
Zechariah over time
Rank among boys' names. Zechariah has never cracked the top 600 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #855 | 285 |
| 2024 | — | #899 | 263 | |
| 2023 | — | #911 | 254 | |
| 2022 | — | #982 | 229 | |
| 2021 | — | #913 | 251 | |
| 2020 | — | #924 | 241 | |
| 2019 | — | #815 | 279 | |
| 2018 | — | #763 | 308 | |
| 2017 | — | #736 | 323 | |
| 2016 | — | #744 | 327 | |
| 2015 | — | #656 | 394 | |
| 2014 | — | #666 | 385 | |
| 2013 | — | #669 | 360 | |
| 2012 | — | #654 | 364 | |
| 2011 | — | #705 | 325 | |
| 2010 | — | #653 | 369 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #700 | 344 |
| 2008 | — | #658 | 369 | |
| 2007 | — | #658 | 364 | |
| 2006 | — | #674 | 337 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #645 | 338 |
| 2004 | — | #662 | 309 | |
| 2003 | — | #690 | 280 | |
| 2002 | — | #656 | 285 | |
| 2001 | — | #635 | 295 | |
| 2000 | — | #665 | 269 | |
| 1999 | — | #713 | 232 | |
| 1998 | — | #696 | 240 | |
| 1997 | — | #767 | 194 | |
| 1996 | — | #693 | 235 | |
| 1995 | — | #762 | 201 | |
| 1994 | — | #687 | 229 | |
| 1993 | — | #660 | 242 | |
| 1992 | — | #699 | 216 | |
| 1991 | — | #778 | 175 | |
| 1990 | — | #812 | 157 | |
| 1989 | — | #804 | 153 | |
| 1988 | — | #987 | 96 | |
| 1987 | — | #954 | 97 | |
| 1986 | — | #925 | 97 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,057 | 76 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,060 | 71 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,028 | 74 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,088 | 70 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,068 | 73 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,187 | 59 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,570 | 37 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,645 | 33 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,502 | 36 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,205 | 20 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zechariah! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Zechariah is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#989 · 1 in 18,376
- California#1,100 · 1 in 24,132
Best ever in a state: #199 in Hawaii, 2004.
Show every state
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| New York | #989 | 6 | 1 in 18,376 |
| California | #1,100 | 7 | 1 in 24,132 |
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See more about Zechariah
- 44 spots since 2024 (#899 → #855)
- 69 spots since 2020 (#924 → #855)
- 199 spots since 2015 (#656 → #855)
- Biggest jump: 183 spots in 1989 (#987 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2020 (#815 → #924)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2001 at #635 (295 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1986–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,865 boys born in 2015 were named Zechariah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,993 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #635 in 2001, was only 1 in 6,586 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.3% of all boys named Zechariah (3,434) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 217 | #1,487 (1978) | #2,217 |
| 1980s | 866 | #804 (1989) | #1,016 |
| 1990s | 2,121 | #660 (1993) | #727 |
| 2000s | 3,190 | #635 (2001) | #664 |
| 2010s | 3,434 | #653 (2010) | #706 |
| 2020s | 1,523 | #855 (2025) | #914 |
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.
Zechariah in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 42,098 of them was named Zechariah, which outranked 78.0% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,474Rahim40
- #1,474Salomon40
- #1,474Syed40
- #1,487Zechariah39
- #1,487Charlton39
- #1,487Faustino39
- #1,487Gabe39
- #1,508Bertram38
- #1,508Christpher38
- #1,508Cori38
Tied with 20 names at #1,487; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.