Zacariah

Last seen for girls in 2008 at #17,504 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
1999 · 17 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
464
since 1975

Zacariah over time

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Rank among boys' names. Zacariah has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #4,162, 1999boys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,67910
2024#8,9878
2023#8,2559
2022#7,76810
2021#7,08911
2020#7,03411
2019#9,7567
2018#7,61710
2017#7,54610
2016#9,6647
2015#8,0409
2014#7,04811
2013#5,40416
2012#5,72015
2011#6,57812
2010#5,74115
2009#5,55416
2008#17,5045#5,48716
2007#4,80819
2006#5,07217
2005#4,82417
2004#6,97610
2003#6,25811
2002#5,39513
2001#7,5368
2000#5,58812
1999#4,16217
1998#5,46611
1997#5,64210
1996#5,53510
1995#5,50110
1994#5,10911
1993#5,36010
1992#5,6609
1991#7,2716
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1988#4,7869
1987#4,5739
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1984#4,9737
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Zacariah! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zacariah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,308 spots since 2024 (#8,987#7,679)
  • 645 spots since 2020 (#7,034#7,679)
  • 361 spots since 2015 (#8,040#7,679)
Rise & fade · boys
24 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 1999 at #4,162 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 2001, 2 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 109,232
  • Highest: 1 in 109,232 boys born in 2007 were named Zacariah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,162 in 1999, was only 1 in 112,950 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 30.0% of all boys named Zacariah (139) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s19#4,403 (1979)#4,975
1980s41#4,573 (1987)#5,714
1990s94#4,162 (1999)#5,523
2000s139#4,808 (2007)#5,750
2010s112#5,404 (2013)#7,311
2020s59#7,034 (2020)#7,802

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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