Zephaniah
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #1,451 for boys in 2025, 123 births
Given to boys 87.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,380since 1972
Zephaniah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #5,917 | 20 | #1,451 | 123 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #1,332 | 144 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,449 | 125 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #1,516 | 119 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #1,383 | 132 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,390 | 125 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #1,136 | 171 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #1,224 | 152 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #1,306 | 138 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #1,266 | 144 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #1,406 | 122 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #1,385 | 123 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | #1,326 | 129 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #1,411 | 117 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #1,503 | 108 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #1,518 | 109 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #1,399 | 121 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #1,464 | 109 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #1,596 | 91 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,603 | 85 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #1,701 | 75 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #1,870 | 63 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #1,744 | 66 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #1,871 | 59 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #1,681 | 68 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #1,871 | 52 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,260 | 37 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | — | #2,556 | 29 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,556 | 29 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,325 | 18 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,325 | 17 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
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| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zephaniah! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zephaniah
- 119 spots since 2024 (#1,332 → #1,451)
- 61 spots since 2020 (#1,390 → #1,451)
- 45 spots since 2015 (#1,406 → #1,451)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2019 at #1,136 (171 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,492 boys born in 2019 were named Zephaniah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,887 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.1% of all boys named Zephaniah (1,321) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 37 | #3,963 (1972) | #4,200 |
| 1980s | 109 | #3,030 (1981) | #4,056 |
| 1990s | 299 | #1,871 (1998) | #2,813 |
| 2000s | 846 | #1,399 (2008) | #1,645 |
| 2010s | 1,321 | #1,136 (2019) | #1,338 |
| 2020s | 768 | #1,332 (2024) | #1,420 |
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.
Zephaniah in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 228,393 of them was named Zephaniah, which outranked 38.6% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,425Zuriel9
- #10,425Zyaira9
- #10,425Zyonna9
- #11,325Zephaniah8
- #11,325Aaleigha8
- #11,325Aaliayh8
- #11,325Aamina8
- #12,408Aailyah7
- #12,408Aaisha7
- #12,408Aanisah7
Tied with 1,082 names at #11,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 31,355 of them was named Zephaniah, which outranked 85.3% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,845Tommie64
- #1,845Tyshaun64
- #1,845Xavior64
- #1,870Zephaniah63
- #1,870Avion63
- #1,870Darrick63
- #1,870Demarius63
- #1,885Aldair62
- #1,885Alen62
- #1,885Andrey62
Tied with 14 names at #1,870; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.