Zaccheus — boys' name

What the Data Says About Zaccheus

The Social Security Administration has registered 481 babies named Zaccheus between 1980 and 2019, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zaccheus currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 23 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zaccheus performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Zaccheus shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zaccheus in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zaccheus in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 481 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.