Zakariah
Zakariah was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,510 among boys’ names; 1,007 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakariah?
#3,510 among boys’ names, 2025
Zakariah rose from #3,876 in 2015 to #3,510 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 19.3 per million.
48 babies in 2014, the peak
Zakariah peaked in 2014, when 48 babies were given it (39 boys, #2,982 among boys’ names). The 33 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,510 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,452 | 19.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,603 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,622 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,238 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,339 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,419 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,602 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,580 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,679 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,876 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,982 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,857 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,112 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,194 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,527 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,042 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,240 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,370 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,777 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,608 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,450 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,970 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,342 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,314 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,379 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,529 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,701 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,278 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,176 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,271 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,794 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,361 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,555 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,996 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,369 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,924 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,742 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,447 | 4.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,278 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,007 Americans recorded as Zakariah, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 33 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 Zakariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakariah, and how old are they?
An estimated 992 Americans named Zakariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 707 people named Zakariah (78 women and girls, 629 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 812 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,076 babies since 1880, Zakariah is the fifth most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 596 babies (5.5%), the fourth 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 Zakariah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Aleksander | 4,166 | |
| Kain | 3,750 | |
| Ibraheem | 1,599 | |
| Stockton | 1,366 | |
| Mikail | 1,243 | |
| Maximilian | 18,940 |
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 Zakariah and names like it
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