Boys' name · since 2015

Hezekyah

36 babies named Hezekyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#24,490 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#13,249 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
36
born since 2015
2020s
peak decade

36 babies have been named Hezekyah since 2015, making it today's #13249 boys' name.

Hezekyah has 36 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13249 as of the latest data, more common than 5% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.

  • #24,490 of 45,481 all-time among boys
  • #13,249 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
  • 36 born since 2015
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Hezekyah ranks #24,490 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,249 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 36 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.

#24,490 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#13,249 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
36
born since 2015
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%4.8%
Hezekyah vs. every other boys name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Hezekyah's 36 recorded births place it above 45.88% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Hezekyah compares

36 13th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Hezekyah's all-time total is 90% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Hezekyah Median boys name (Takari) #1 boys name (Liam)
All-time total births 36 369 358,536
Peak-year births 8 34 22,252

Hezekyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Hezekyah's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 44% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 56%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2020 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Hezekyah popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2020)
8
Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
456789 201520202021202220232025 5

Hezekyah by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (30 births, 83% of the file).

2020s was Hezekyah's strongest decade.

30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.

Hezekyah births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 30 births (83% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Hezekyah?
36 babies have been named Hezekyah since 2015. All-time, it sits at #24,490 of 45,481 boys' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #13,249 of 13,930 among boys. The peak year was 2020 with 8 births.
Where does Hezekyah sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Hezekyah ranks #24,490 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,249 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Hezekyah most popular?
Hezekyah was most popular in the 2020s decade with 30 total births. The single peak year was 2020.
How long has the name Hezekyah been used?
Records for Hezekyah go back to 2015, giving 11 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Hezekyah?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Hezekiah, Hezzie, Hezakiah, Hezikiah, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for boys.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Hezekyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Hezekyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.