Zakariah

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to boys 90.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
#2,929
2014 · 39 births
Debut · boys
1981
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
914
since 1981

Zakariah over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #7,118, 2011peak #2,929, 2014girlsboys
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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—#3,45033
2024—#3,39434
2023#15,1945#4,45623
2022—#5,44517
2021#13,4646#3,18037
2020#13,4536#3,27434
2019—#3,34734
2018—#3,52431
2017—#3,51831
2016—#3,59630
2015#16,4195#3,77528
2014#10,9559#2,92939
2013#8,58013#3,75327
2012#11,2579#3,05937
2011#7,11817#4,98318
2010#11,2469#3,45331
2009#12,4298#2,99139
2008—#5,06718
2007—#4,24323
2006#15,1526#3,68627
2005—#3,52827
2004—#3,36828
2003—#3,83822
2002—#3,25927
2001—#3,22827
2000—#4,20418
1999—#4,34116
1998—#3,59720
1997—#4,96012
1996—#4,87812
1995—#4,05215
1994—#4,53713
1993—#3,24620
1992—#4,32713
1991—#3,81315
1990—#4,99310
1989—#6,2297
1988—#5,2008
1987—#4,9688
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1981—#6,2625
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five boys were named Zakariah! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1981–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zakariah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 56 spots since 2024 (#3,394 → #3,450)
  • 176 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #3,450)
  • 325 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #3,450)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2014 at #2,929 (39 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 8 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 47,283
  • Highest: 1 in 47,283 boys born in 2021 were named Zakariah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,929 in 2014, was only 1 in 49,253 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 33.5% of all boys named Zakariah (306) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s28#4,968 (1987)#5,665
1990s146#3,246 (1993)#4,274
2000s256#2,991 (2009)#3,741
2010s306#2,929 (2014)#3,594
2020s178#3,180 (2021)#3,867

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.

Zakariah in 2006

girls
#15,152
6 births · 1 in 316,868 girls
boys
#3,686
27 births · 1 in 76,121 boys

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #15,152Zakariah6

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #3,686Zakariah27
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 316,868 of them was named Zakariah, which outranked 24.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zakariah
  1. #13,606Zunaira7
  2. #13,606Zuriah7
  3. #13,606Zyanah7
  4. #15,152Zakariah6
  5. #15,152Aaisha6
  6. #15,152Aalivia6
  7. #15,152Aaliyan6
  8. #17,168Aadi5
  9. #17,168Aailyah5
  10. #17,168Aalanah5

Tied with 2,015 names at #15,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
  2. ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
  3. ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
  4. ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
  5. ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,134Mikalah#806 → #2,940
  2. ↓ 1,275Jolette#954 → #2,229
  3. ↓ 756Karol#818 → #1,574
  4. ↓ 446Litzy#388 → #834
  5. ↓ 305Devon#963 → #1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 76,121 of them was named Zakariah, which outranked 73.8% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zakariah
  1. #3,602Westyn28
  2. #3,602Yunus28
  3. #3,602Zebulon28
  4. #3,686Zakariah27
  5. #3,686Abhay27
  6. #3,686Adain27
  7. #3,686Adithya27
  8. #3,782Aaren26
  9. #3,782Aarya26
  10. #3,782Adham26

Tied with 95 names at #3,686; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. ↑ 792Bode#1,648 → #856
  2. ↑ 790Talen#1,691 → #901
  3. ↑ 677Kingston#1,603 → #926
  4. ↑ 634Imanol#1,619 → #985
  5. ↑ 590Yandel#1,266 → #676
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,208Baby#945 → #3,153
  2. ↓ 609Kanye#892 → #1,501
  3. ↓ 442Amarion#628 → #1,070
  4. ↓ 308Omarion#420 → #728
  5. ↓ 224Johnpaul#739 → #963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006 →