Meaning not yet researched.
Zechariah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 285 in 2025. Its best rank was #636 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #636 in 2001; #856 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Zechariah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#856 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #636.
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Zechariah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 285 boys in 2025. Peak: #636 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 394 (2015).
In 2025, 285 US boys were named Zechariah, making it the 856th most common boys’ name of the year, up 44 places from #900 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 263 boys named Zechariah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #636, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 394, in 2015. For comparison, it was #657 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zechariah in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 7 babies. In all, 11,369 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,434 babies named Zechariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,760 US boys were named Zechariah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 327. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,993 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zechariah ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #571 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880), Zachariah (31,275 babies since 1880), Zakaria (3,349 babies since 1880) and Zacharias (2,074 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zecharia, Zecheriah and Zekharyah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zecharia (105), Zecheriah (25), Zekharyah (12), Zecharyah (10), Zecharya (5), Zechari (5).
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 Zechariah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 9 | #571 | #617 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #617 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #619 | #445 |
| Georgia | 17 | #624 | #499 |
| Maryland | 8 | #631 | #707 |
| Florida | 27 | #632 | #601 |
| Texas | 46 | #660 | #622 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #671 | #627 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #774 | #655 |
| California | 33 | #785 | #588 |
| Virginia | 9 | #797 | #581 |
| Missouri | 6 | #867 | #817 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #914 | #1,112 |
| Ohio | 9 | #938 | #836 |
| Colorado | 5 | #964 | #635 |
| New York | 12 | #1,053 | #1,004 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,229 | #615 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,480 | #615 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,255 | 285 | #856 |
| 2024 | — | — | 263 | #900 |
| 2023 | — | — | 254 | #913 |
| 2022 | — | — | 229 | #989 |
| 2021 | — | — | 251 | #915 |
| 2020 | — | — | 241 | #927 |
| 2019 | — | — | 279 | #817 |
| 2018 | — | — | 308 | #764 |
| 2017 | — | — | 323 | #740 |
| 2016 | — | — | 327 | #747 |
| 2015 | — | — | 394 | #657 |
| 2014 | — | — | 385 | #667 |
| 2013 | — | — | 360 | #672 |
| 2012 | — | — | 364 | #655 |
| 2011 | — | — | 325 | #706 |
| 2010 | — | — | 369 | #654 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,689 | 344 | #702 |
| 2008 | — | — | 369 | #659 |
| 2007 | — | — | 364 | #660 |
| 2006 | — | — | 337 | #675 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,174 | 338 | #647 |
| 2004 | — | — | 309 | #662 |
| 2003 | — | — | 280 | #692 |
| 2002 | — | — | 285 | #656 |
| 2001 | — | — | 295 | #636 |
| 2000 | — | — | 269 | #666 |
| 1999 | — | — | 232 | #713 |
| 1998 | — | — | 240 | #699 |
| 1997 | — | — | 194 | #774 |
| 1996 | — | — | 235 | #693 |
| 1995 | — | — | 201 | #762 |
| 1994 | — | — | 229 | #690 |
| 1993 | — | — | 242 | #662 |
| 1992 | — | — | 216 | #701 |
| 1991 | — | — | 175 | #779 |
| 1990 | — | — | 157 | #817 |
| 1989 | — | — | 153 | #805 |
| 1988 | — | — | 96 | #993 |
| 1987 | — | — | 97 | #960 |
| 1986 | — | — | 97 | #931 |
| 1985 | — | — | 76 | #1,065 |
| 1984 | — | — | 71 | #1,068 |
| 1983 | — | — | 74 | #1,034 |
| 1982 | — | — | 70 | #1,095 |
| 1981 | — | — | 73 | #1,072 |
| 1980 | — | — | 59 | #1,203 |
| 1979 | — | — | 37 | #1,597 |
| 1978 | — | — | 39 | #1,507 |
| 1977 | — | — | 33 | #1,669 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,540 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,287 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,458 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,512 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,989 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,372 |
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).