Hezekiah
Hezekiah was given to 621 boys in 2025, #485 among boys’ names; 11,228 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,530 Americans named Hezekiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hezekiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hezekiah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hezekiah is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the sense “Hezekiah” (חִזְקִיָּה).
From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (Ḥizqiyáhu, “Hezekiah”).
/ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hezekiah?
#485 among boys’ names, 2025
Hezekiah rose from #673 in 2015 to #485 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.20 to 0.36 per 1,000.
631 babies in 2024, the peak
Hezekiah peaked in 2024, when 631 boys were given it, #490 among boys’ names. The 626 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 621 | #485 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 631 | #490 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 557 | #531 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 489 | #586 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 495 | #570 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 479 | #578 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 427 | #632 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 432 | #620 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 432 | #611 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 378 | #676 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 377 | #673 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 303 | #772 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 242 | #873 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 268 | #821 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 242 | #870 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 219 | #921 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 241 | #876 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 223 | #918 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 215 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 225 | #877 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 157 | #1,055 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 147 | #1,056 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,034 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,057 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,108 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,251 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,381 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,582 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,601 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,959 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,054 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,423 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,254 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,164 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,819 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,396 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,152 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,465 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,671 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,835 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,843 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,965 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,470 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,923 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,995 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,259 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,538 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,694 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,041 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,657 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,232 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,735 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,442 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,250 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,170 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,238 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,328 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,340 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,147 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,269 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,291 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,371 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,658 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,450 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,374 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,196 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,342 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,380 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,409 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,187 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,173 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 51 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 52 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 46 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 42 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 29 | #921 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 29 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 16 | #846 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 14 | #840 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 11 | #920 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 10 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 18 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 11 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 12 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 13 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,200 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 12 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 20 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 12 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 13 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 15 | #529 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 13 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 16 | #514 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 9 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 12 | #589 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 13 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 17 | #435 | 0.17 |
| 1890 | 6 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 16 | #473 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 9 | #720 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 13 | #499 | 0.13 |
| 1886 | 7 | #800 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 9 | #670 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 9 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 15 | #470 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 7 | #794 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 12 | #518 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 11 | #588 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hezekiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hezekiah has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 145 years of records.
Girls and boys named Hezekiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hezekiah, and how old are they?
9,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 11,228 Americans ever recorded as Hezekiah. The median Hezekiah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 5,084 people named Hezekiah (33 women and girls, 5,051 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,541 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 94 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 294 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 211 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 368 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,830 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hezekiah born?
The states with the most babies named Hezekiah are Texas, California and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 79 | #427 | 0.8× |
| California | 74 | #433 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 39 | #470 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 27 | #399 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #437 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 25 | #445 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 23 | #328 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 21 | #365 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 20 | #373 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 20 | #321 | 1.0× |
Where Hezekiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hezekiah is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 4.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hezekiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,523 babies since 1880, Hezekiah is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 626 of their 644 babies (97%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hezekiah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hezekiah and names like it
- Compare Hezekiah and HezakiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHezekiah peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hezekiah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Hezekiah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hezekiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hezekiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.