Zacheriah
Zacheriah was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,871 among boys’ names; 650 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zacheriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zacheriah?
#13,871 among boys’ names, 2025
Zacheriah fell from #6,312 in 2015 to #13,871 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
28 babies in 1991, the peak
Zacheriah peaked in 1991, when 28 boys were given it, #2,537 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,871 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #14,031 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,977 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,723 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,741 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,711 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,312 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,540 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #7,001 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,531 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | #6,244 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,237 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,917 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,704 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #4,004 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,216 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,189 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,237 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,608 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #7,028 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,965 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,142 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,370 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,864 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,052 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,386 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,184 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,101 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,493 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,990 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,537 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,458 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,461 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,776 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,230 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,124 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,325 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,920 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,628 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,359 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,255 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,235 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #7,064 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,849 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zacheriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zacheriah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zacheriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zacheriah, and how old are they?
An estimated 631 Americans named Zacheriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 456 people named Zacheriah (0 women and girls, 456 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 622 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,562 babies since 1880, Zacheriah is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 27 babies (19%), again the second 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 Zacheriah
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 Zacheriah and names like it
- Compare Zacheriah and ZachariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZacheriah peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zacheriah since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Zacheriah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zacheriah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.