Zebediah
#5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 622since 1978
Zebediah over time
Rank among boys' names. Zebediah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #5,111 | 18 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
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| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zebediah! It came in at #3,857, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zebediah
- 235 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,208)
- 772 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #5,208)
- 1,468 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #5,208)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1979 at #2,777 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 79,640 boys born in 1998 were named Zebediah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,777 in 1979, was only 1 in 107,596 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.7% of all boys named Zebediah (172) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 25 | #2,777 (1979) | #3,317 |
| 1980s | 63 | #4,234 (1982) | #5,387 |
| 1990s | 112 | #3,191 (1998) | #5,235 |
| 2000s | 172 | #3,893 (2007) | #5,012 |
| 2010s | 160 | #4,624 (2016) | #5,618 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,208 (2025) | #5,910 |
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.
Zebediah in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 145,011 of them was named Zebediah, which outranked 56.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,451Zahid14
- #4,451Zakarie14
- #4,451Zoe14
- #4,668Zebediah13
- #4,668Aarion13
- #4,668Abdullahi13
- #4,668Abir13
- #4,960Aayush12
- #4,960Abdoul12
- #4,960Addam12
Tied with 291 names at #4,668; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.