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 | — | — | ||
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| 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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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
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| 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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| 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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 353,390 of them was named Zachariah, which outranked 14.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 2,782 of them was named Zachariah, which outranked 96.7% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.