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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#345 · 1 in 1,669
- Georgia#357 · 1 in 1,967
- Mississippi#424 · 1 in 2,129
- Maryland#492 · 1 in 3,195
- Kentucky#492 · 1 in 3,347
Best ever in a state: #199 in Hawaii, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #345 | 9 | 1 in 1,669 |
| Georgia | #357 | 30 | 1 in 1,967 |
| Mississippi | #424 | 7 | 1 in 2,129 |
| Kentucky | #492 | 7 | 1 in 3,347 |
| Maryland | #492 | 9 | 1 in 3,195 |
| Missouri | #507 | 10 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Florida | #564 | 25 | 1 in 3,812 |
| North Carolina | #568 | 14 | 1 in 3,845 |
| Ohio | #588 | 14 | 1 in 4,475 |
| Oregon | #588 | 5 | 1 in 3,863 |
| Indiana | #589 | 9 | 1 in 4,154 |
| Tennessee | #631 | 8 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Illinois | #637 | 16 | 1 in 4,534 |
| Michigan | #657 | 10 | 1 in 4,936 |
| South Carolina | #659 | 5 | 1 in 4,340 |
| Colorado | #662 | 6 | 1 in 4,791 |
| Louisiana | #689 | 6 | 1 in 4,173 |
| Texas | #693 | 34 | 1 in 5,484 |
| Washington | #718 | 7 | 1 in 5,280 |
| California | #753 | 33 | 1 in 7,338 |
| New York | #785 | 17 | 1 in 6,336 |
| Pennsylvania | #847 | 8 | 1 in 7,765 |
| New Jersey | #862 | 6 | 1 in 7,436 |
| Arizona | #879 | 5 | 1 in 7,987 |
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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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 229,639 of them was named Zechariah, which outranked 38.5% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,459Zyair9
- #11,459Zynasia9
- #11,459Zyrihanna9
- #12,429Zechariah8
- #12,429Aaleeyah8
- #12,429Aalina8
- #12,429Aamiya8
- #13,704Aadyn7
- #13,704Aahna7
- #13,704Aairah7
Tied with 1,274 names at #12,429; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,766 of them was named Zechariah, which outranked 95.2% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).