Zechariah
Zechariah was given to 285 boys in 2025, #856 among boys’ names; 11,369 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,100 Americans named Zechariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zechariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zechariah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zechariah is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “the Lord has remembered” (זְכַרְיָה).
From Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (zəḵaryā, “the Lord has remembered”). Doublet of Zach, Zachary, Zachariah, Zacharias, Zakariya, and Jakariya.
/ˌzɛkəˈɹaɪ.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zechariah?
#856 among boys’ names, 2025
Zechariah fell from #657 in 2015 to #856 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.21 to 0.17 per 1,000.
394 babies in 2015, the peak
Zechariah peaked in 2015, when 394 boys were given it, #657 among boys’ names. The 290 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 285 | #856 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 263 | #900 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 254 | #913 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 229 | #989 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 251 | #915 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 241 | #927 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 279 | #817 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 308 | #764 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 323 | #740 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 327 | #747 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 394 | #657 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 385 | #667 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 360 | #672 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 364 | #655 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 325 | #706 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 369 | #654 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 344 | #702 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 369 | #659 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 364 | #660 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 337 | #675 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 338 | #647 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 309 | #662 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 280 | #692 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 285 | #656 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 295 | #636 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 269 | #665 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 232 | #711 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 240 | #699 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 194 | #772 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 235 | #692 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 201 | #759 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 229 | #689 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 242 | #661 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 216 | #699 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 175 | #775 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 157 | #813 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 153 | #802 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 96 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 97 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 97 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 39 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,669 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,539 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,286 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,456 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,987 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,370 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zechariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zechariah has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zechariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zechariah, and how old are they?
11,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,369 Americans ever recorded as Zechariah. The median Zechariah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 7,229 people named Zechariah (58 women and girls, 7,171 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 252 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,880 |
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 Zechariah born?
The states with the most babies named Zechariah are Texas, California and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #660 | 1.1× |
| California | 33 | #785 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 27 | #632 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 17 | #624 | 1.2× |
| New York | 12 | #1,053 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #774 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #671 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 9 | #938 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 9 | #797 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 9 | #571 | 0.9× |
Where Zechariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zechariah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1971 it was given 1.2 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 Zechariah 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,474 babies since 1880, Zechariah is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 290 of their 301 babies (96%), 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 Zechariah
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 Zechariah and names like it
- Compare Zechariah and ZechariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZechariah peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zechariah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zechariah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Zechariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zechariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.