Zecharia
Zecharia was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,664 among boys’ names; 105 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zecharia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zecharia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zecharia is “a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Zechariah”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zecharia?
#7,664 among boys’ names, 2025
Zecharia rose from #14,029 in 2015 to #7,664 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 6.4 per million.
13 babies in 2023, the peak
Zecharia peaked in 2023, when 13 boys were given it, #6,884 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,664 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #14,257 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,884 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,804 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #14,064 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #12,000 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,741 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #14,226 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #14,029 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #14,041 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #10,711 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,781 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #14,237 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,344 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #14,011 | 2.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,588 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zecharia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zecharia has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zecharia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zecharia, and how old are they?
An estimated 104 Americans named Zecharia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 167 people named Zecharia (14 women and girls, 153 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 58 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Zecharia rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,474 babies since 1880, Zecharia is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 301 babies (3.7%), 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 Zecharia
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 Zecharia and names like it
- Compare Zecharia and ZechariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZecharia peaked in 2023.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zecharia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zecharia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.