Zacariah
Zacariah was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,229 among boys’ names; 469 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zacariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zacariah?
#8,229 among boys’ names, 2025
Zacariah rose from #8,720 in 2015 to #8,229 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 5.9 per million.
21 babies in 2008, the peak
Zacariah peaked in 2008, when 21 babies were given it (16 boys, #5,757 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,229 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,859 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,896 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,271 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,565 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,480 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,768 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,136 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,120 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,708 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,720 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,539 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,650 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,983 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,987 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 15 | #6,023 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,787 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,757 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,987 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,292 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #5,025 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,517 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,701 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,711 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,314 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,900 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,335 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,829 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,087 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,967 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,916 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,440 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,761 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,115 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,215 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,208 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,190 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,954 | 4.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,564 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,547 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,232 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,834 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,762 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,329 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zacariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 469 Americans recorded as Zacariah, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zacariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zacariah, and how old are they?
An estimated 458 Americans named Zacariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Zacariah (29 women and girls, 352 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 406 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Zacariah?
Zacariah is a less common spelling of Zakaria: SSA has recorded 469 Zacariah and 3,349 Zakaria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,900 babies since 1880, Zacariah is the fifth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 268 babies (3.7%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Zacariah
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 Zacariah and names like it
- Compare Zacariah and ZakariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZacariah peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zacariah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zacariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zacariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.