Meaning not yet researched.
Zacharia: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,536 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,536 in 1989; #5,599 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zacharia in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,599 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #1,536.
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Zacharia: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,536 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 57 (2002).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Zacharia, making it the 5,599th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,224 places from #6,823 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 13 boys named Zacharia in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,536, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 57, in 2002. For comparison, it was #3,773 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zacharia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 8 babies. In all, 1,758 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 493 babies named Zacharia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 170 US boys were named Zacharia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880), Zachariah (31,275 babies since 1880), Zechariah (11,369 babies since 1880) and Zakaria (3,349 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zacharia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,599 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,823 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,500 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,277 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,334 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,228 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,096 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,603 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,324 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,774 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,773 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,134 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,206 | 26 | #3,960 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,803 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,990 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,729 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,989 |
| 2008 | — | — | 56 | #2,344 |
| 2007 | — | — | 53 | #2,440 |
| 2006 | — | — | 52 | #2,394 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,466 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,063 | 40 | #2,695 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,728 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,972 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,344 |
| 2000 | 6 | #15,004 | 56 | #1,894 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,916 | 39 | #2,346 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,273 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,963 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,841 |
| 1995 | — | — | 50 | #1,780 |
| 1994 | — | — | 52 | #1,732 |
| 1993 | — | — | 50 | #1,740 |
| 1992 | — | — | 54 | #1,641 |
| 1991 | — | — | 40 | #1,951 |
| 1990 | — | — | 47 | #1,728 |
| 1989 | — | — | 54 | #1,536 |
| 1988 | — | — | 43 | #1,669 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #2,019 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,056 |
| 1985 | — | — | 35 | #1,763 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #2,035 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,207 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,517 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,036 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,830 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,378 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,203 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,268 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,599 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,750 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,315 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,870 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,342 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,960 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).