Zackariah
Zackariah was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,535 among boys’ names; 1,350 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Zackariah 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zackariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zackariah?
#4,535 among boys’ names, 2025
Zackariah fell from #2,916 in 2015 to #4,535 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 13.5 per million.
54 babies in 2010, the peak
Zackariah peaked in 2010, when 54 boys were given it, #2,373 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,535 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,057 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,734 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,693 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,807 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,687 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,255 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,986 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,669 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,986 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,916 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,452 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,665 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,713 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,044 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 54 | #2,373 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,944 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,627 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,601 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,394 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,747 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,069 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,574 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,340 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,981 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,728 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,458 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,646 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,443 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,820 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,756 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,438 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,251 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,404 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,906 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,945 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,197 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,073 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,514 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,648 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,774 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,696 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,068 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,998 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,500 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,611 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,352 | 7.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,928 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,452 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,869 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zackariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zackariah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zackariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zackariah, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,350 Americans ever recorded as Zackariah. The median Zackariah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 812 people named Zackariah (5 women and girls, 807 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,201 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 289 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 624 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 367 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,162 babies since 1880, Zackariah is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 199 babies (12%), the third 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 Zackariah
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 Zackariah and names like it
- Compare Zackariah and ZakariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZackariah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zackariah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Zackariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zackariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.