Zacharia
Zacharia was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,597 among boys’ names; 1,758 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Zacharia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zacharia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zacharia?
#5,597 among boys’ names, 2025
Zacharia fell from #3,772 in 2015 to #5,597 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 10.0 per million.
62 babies in 2000, the peak
Zacharia peaked in 2000, when 62 babies were given it (56 boys, #1,890 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,597 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,818 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,495 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,272 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,329 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,224 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,091 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,599 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,320 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,773 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,772 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,131 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,958 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,800 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,988 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,728 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,988 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,343 | 27.4 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,440 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,393 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,462 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,691 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,724 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,968 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,340 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,890 | 28.5 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,343 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,270 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,960 | 24.9 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,837 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,775 | 26.3 |
| 1994 | 52 | #1,727 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,735 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,636 | 27.0 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,945 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,723 | 22.9 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,531 | 27.0 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,664 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 31 | #2,015 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,054 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,762 | 18.9 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,034 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,206 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,516 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,035 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,829 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,377 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,203 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,268 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,598 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,748 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,313 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,868 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,340 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,958 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zacharia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,758 Americans recorded as Zacharia, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 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 Zacharia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zacharia, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,758 Americans ever recorded as Zacharia. The median Zacharia alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,600 people named Zacharia (78 women and girls, 1,522 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,632 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 134 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 603 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 711 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 253 |
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 Zacharia born?
The states with the most babies named Zacharia are California, New York and Ohio, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Zacharia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Zacharia?
Zacharia is a less common spelling of Zachariah: SSA has recorded 1,758 Zacharia and 31,275 Zachariah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 589,569 babies since 1880, Zacharia is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 2,240 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Zacharia
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 Zacharia and names like it
- Compare Zacharia and ZachariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZacharia peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zacharia since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Zacharia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zacharia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.