Zachariah
Zachariah was given to 558 boys in 2025, #538 among boys’ names; 31,275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,200 Americans named Zachariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zachariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zachariah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zachariah is “a male given name from Hebrew, alternative form of Zechariah and Zachary.” Its etymology gives the sense “Yahweh has remembered” (זְכַרְיָה).
From Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”) under influence from Latin Zacharias and Koine Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías). Doublet of Zach, Zachary, Zacharias, Zechariah, Zakariya, and Jakariya.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zachariah?
#538 among boys’ names, 2025
Zachariah fell from #417 in 2015 to #538 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.39 to 0.33 per 1,000.
874 babies in 1992, the peak
Zachariah peaked in 1992, when 874 boys were given it, #305 among boys’ names. The 558 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 558 | #538 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 517 | #568 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 490 | #585 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 565 | #528 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 541 | #543 | 0.31 |
| 2020 | 552 | #522 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 620 | #474 | 0.35 |
| 2018 | 607 | #484 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 705 | #441 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 710 | #436 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 747 | #417 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 669 | #445 | 0.35 |
| 2013 | 755 | #399 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 643 | #431 | 0.34 |
| 2011 | 582 | #459 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 603 | #445 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 657 | #429 | 0.33 |
| 2008 | 650 | #439 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 640 | #437 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 691 | #416 | 0.34 |
| 2005 | 667 | #409 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 620 | #419 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 688 | #380 | 0.35 |
| 2002 | 660 | #395 | 0.34 |
| 2001 | 658 | #387 | 0.34 |
| 2000 | 700 | #374 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 676 | #383 | 0.35 |
| 1998 | 687 | #373 | 0.36 |
| 1997 | 706 | #358 | 0.37 |
| 1996 | 716 | #347 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 772 | #332 | 0.41 |
| 1994 | 809 | #320 | 0.42 |
| 1993 | 810 | #324 | 0.41 |
| 1992 | 874 | #305 | 0.44 |
| 1991 | 833 | #312 | 0.41 |
| 1990 | 757 | #327 | 0.37 |
| 1989 | 698 | #334 | 0.35 |
| 1988 | 640 | #337 | 0.33 |
| 1987 | 538 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 498 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1985 | 491 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 430 | #397 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 440 | #381 | 0.25 |
| 1982 | 459 | #377 | 0.25 |
| 1981 | 384 | #427 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 406 | #403 | 0.23 |
| 1979 | 371 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1978 | 302 | #464 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 281 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 234 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 186 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 159 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 155 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 134 | #696 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,929 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,369 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,514 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,545 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,674 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,863 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,945 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,541 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,385 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,260 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,259 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zachariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zachariah has been given almost only to boys: 37 girls in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zachariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zachariah, and how old are they?
30,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 31,275 Americans ever recorded as Zachariah. The median Zachariah alive today is 25 years old; half are between 13 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 20,718 people named Zachariah (71 women and girls, 20,647 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,980 |
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 Zachariah born?
The states with the most babies named Zachariah are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 82 | #408 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 71 | #475 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 30 | #583 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #474 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 20 | #538 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 18 | #410 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 18 | #486 | 1.0× |
| New York | 18 | #797 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 18 | #423 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 18 | #591 | 0.8× |
Where Zachariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zachariah is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 Zachariah 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 35,086 babies since 1880, Zachariah is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 558 of their 645 babies (87%), 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 Zachariah
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 Zachariah and names like it
- Compare Zachariah and ZachBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZachariah peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zachariah since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Zachariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zachariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.