Zakariah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zakaria, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zakariah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,984 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,984 in 2014; #3,511 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zakariah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,511 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,984.
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Zakariah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,984 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 39 (2014).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Zakariah, making it the 3,511th most common boys’ name of the year, down 57 places from #3,454 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 34 boys named Zakariah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,984, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 39. For comparison, it was #3,877 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakariah in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 1,007 US babies have been given the name, 9.2% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 368 babies named Zakariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 304 US boys were named Zakariah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zakaria (3,349 babies since 1880), Zakari (2,729 babies since 1880) and Zakariya (2,558 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 Zakariah 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 | — | — | 33 | #3,511 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,454 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,551 | 23 | #4,607 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,626 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,202 | 37 | #3,240 |
| 2020 | 6 | #15,035 | 34 | #3,341 |
| 2019 | — | — | 34 | #3,422 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,606 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,584 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,680 |
| 2015 | 5 | #19,055 | 28 | #3,877 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,905 | 39 | #2,984 |
| 2013 | 13 | #9,027 | 27 | #3,859 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,185 | 37 | #3,114 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,420 | 18 | #5,198 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,253 | 31 | #3,528 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,678 | 39 | #3,043 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,245 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,372 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,121 | 27 | #3,779 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,612 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,454 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,975 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,347 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,319 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,386 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,535 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,705 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,284 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,183 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,277 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,800 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,367 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,562 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #4,003 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,376 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,931 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,748 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,454 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,281 |
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).