Zachariah
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · #536 for boys in 2025, 558 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 874 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 31,238since 1880
Zachariah over time
Rank among boys' names. Zachariah has never cracked the top 300 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #536 | 558 | |
| 2024 | — | #568 | 517 | |
| 2023 | — | #585 | 490 | |
| 2022 | — | #528 | 565 | |
| 2021 | — | #543 | 541 | |
| 2020 | — | #520 | 552 | |
| 2019 | — | #473 | 620 | |
| 2018 | — | #484 | 607 | |
| 2017 | — | #441 | 705 | |
| 2016 | — | #436 | 710 | |
| 2015 | — | #417 | 747 | |
| 2014 | — | #445 | 669 | |
| 2013 | — | #399 | 755 | |
| 2012 | — | #431 | 643 | |
| 2011 | — | #458 | 582 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #445 | 603 |
| 2009 | — | #429 | 657 | |
| 2008 | — | #439 | 650 | |
| 2007 | — | #436 | 640 | |
| 2006 | — | #415 | 691 | |
| 2005 | — | #409 | 667 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #418 | 620 |
| 2003 | — | #378 | 688 | |
| 2002 | — | #395 | 660 | |
| 2001 | — | #387 | 658 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #373 | 700 |
| 1999 | — | #383 | 676 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #373 | 687 |
| 1997 | — | #358 | 706 | |
| 1996 | — | #347 | 716 | |
| 1995 | — | #332 | 772 | |
| 1994 | — | #320 | 809 | |
| 1993 | — | #324 | 810 | |
| 1992 | — | #305 | 874 | |
| 1991 | — | #311 | 833 | |
| 1990 | — | #327 | 757 | |
| 1989 | — | #334 | 698 | |
| 1988 | — | #337 | 640 | |
| 1987 | — | #363 | 538 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #372 | 498 |
| 1985 | — | #372 | 491 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #396 | 430 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #381 | 440 |
| 1982 | — | #377 | 459 | |
| 1981 | — | #424 | 384 | |
| 1980 | — | #403 | 406 | |
| 1979 | — | #412 | 371 | |
| 1978 | — | #464 | 302 | |
| 1977 | — | #482 | 281 | |
| 1976 | — | #528 | 234 | |
| 1975 | — | #591 | 186 | |
| 1974 | — | #639 | 159 | |
| 1973 | — | #639 | 155 | |
| 1972 | — | #692 | 134 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,026 | 63 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,293 | 16 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #2,606 | 9 | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
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| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
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| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
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| 1892 | — | #1,066 | 5 | |
| 1891 | — | — | ||
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| 1888 | — | — | ||
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| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | #909 | 5 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Zachariah was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zachariah
- 32 spots since 2024 (#568 → #536)
- 16 spots since 2020 (#520 → #536)
- 119 spots since 2015 (#417 → #536)
- Biggest jump: 334 spots in 1972 (#1,026 → #692)
- Biggest drop: 57 spots in 2023 (#528 → #585)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1992 at #305 (874 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1972–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,285 boys born in 1992 were named Zachariah (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,061 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 24.5% of all boys named Zachariah (7,640) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #909 (1880) | #940 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,066 (1892) | #1,066 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 40 | #2,496 (1913) | #3,082 |
| 1920s | 50 | #2,772 (1923) | #3,805 |
| 1930s | 23 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,270 |
| 1940s | 22 | #2,606 (1949) | #2,878 |
| 1950s | 43 | #2,709 (1953) | #3,492 |
| 1960s | 25 | #2,985 (1967) | #3,665 |
| 1970s | 1,901 | #412 (1979) | #777 |
| 1980s | 4,984 | #334 (1989) | #376 |
| 1990s | 7,640 | #305 (1992) | #338 |
| 2000s | 6,631 | #373 (2000) | #408 |
| 2010s | 6,641 | #399 (2013) | #443 |
| 2020s | 3,223 | #520 (2020) | #547 |
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.
Zachariah in 1967
Top boys' names in 1967
More about 1967
boys
1,743,811 boys got a published name in 1967; 1 in 217,976 of them was named Zachariah, which outranked 34.4% of the 4,551 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,760Yaron9
- #2,760Zach9
- #2,760Zoran9
- #2,985Zachariah8
- #2,985Able8
- #2,985Adron8
- #2,985Alcide8
- #3,231Abron7
- #3,231Adolpho7
- #3,231Ajay7
Tied with 245 names at #2,985; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.