Zechariah
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #855 for boys in 2025, 285 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 295 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,351since 1971
Zechariah over time
Rank among boys' names. Zechariah has never cracked the top 600 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #855 | 285 |
| 2024 | — | #899 | 263 | |
| 2023 | — | #911 | 254 | |
| 2022 | — | #982 | 229 | |
| 2021 | — | #913 | 251 | |
| 2020 | — | #924 | 241 | |
| 2019 | — | #815 | 279 | |
| 2018 | — | #763 | 308 | |
| 2017 | — | #736 | 323 | |
| 2016 | — | #744 | 327 | |
| 2015 | — | #656 | 394 | |
| 2014 | — | #666 | 385 | |
| 2013 | — | #669 | 360 | |
| 2012 | — | #654 | 364 | |
| 2011 | — | #705 | 325 | |
| 2010 | — | #653 | 369 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #700 | 344 |
| 2008 | — | #658 | 369 | |
| 2007 | — | #658 | 364 | |
| 2006 | — | #674 | 337 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #645 | 338 |
| 2004 | — | #662 | 309 | |
| 2003 | — | #690 | 280 | |
| 2002 | — | #656 | 285 | |
| 2001 | — | #635 | 295 | |
| 2000 | — | #665 | 269 | |
| 1999 | — | #713 | 232 | |
| 1998 | — | #696 | 240 | |
| 1997 | — | #767 | 194 | |
| 1996 | — | #693 | 235 | |
| 1995 | — | #762 | 201 | |
| 1994 | — | #687 | 229 | |
| 1993 | — | #660 | 242 | |
| 1992 | — | #699 | 216 | |
| 1991 | — | #778 | 175 | |
| 1990 | — | #812 | 157 | |
| 1989 | — | #804 | 153 | |
| 1988 | — | #987 | 96 | |
| 1987 | — | #954 | 97 | |
| 1986 | — | #925 | 97 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,057 | 76 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,060 | 71 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,028 | 74 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,088 | 70 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,068 | 73 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,187 | 59 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,570 | 37 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,645 | 33 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,502 | 36 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,205 | 20 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zechariah! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zechariah
- 44 spots since 2024 (#899 → #855)
- 69 spots since 2020 (#924 → #855)
- 199 spots since 2015 (#656 → #855)
- Biggest jump: 183 spots in 1989 (#987 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2020 (#815 → #924)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2001 at #635 (295 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1986–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,865 boys born in 2015 were named Zechariah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,993 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #635 in 2001, was only 1 in 6,586 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.3% of all boys named Zechariah (3,434) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 217 | #1,487 (1978) | #2,217 |
| 1980s | 866 | #804 (1989) | #1,016 |
| 1990s | 2,121 | #660 (1993) | #727 |
| 2000s | 3,190 | #635 (2001) | #664 |
| 2010s | 3,434 | #653 (2010) | #706 |
| 2020s | 1,523 | #855 (2025) | #914 |
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.
Zechariah in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 369,568 of them was named Zechariah, which outranked 14.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 5,909 of them was named Zechariah, which outranked 95.2% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).