Zekiah
Zekiah was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,855 among boys’ names; 443 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 Zekiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zekiah?
#4,855 among boys’ names, 2025
Zekiah rose from #9,553 in 2015 to #4,855 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 12.3 per million.
35 babies in 2021, the peak
Zekiah peaked in 2021, when 35 babies were given it (28 boys, #3,907 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 21 | #4,855 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 26 | #4,196 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 16 | #5,916 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,719 | 18 | #5,438 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,445 | 28 | #3,907 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 23 | #4,420 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 17 | #5,549 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 18 | #5,314 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 18 | #5,291 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 12 | #7,146 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,553 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,188 | 11 | #7,549 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,769 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 8 | #9,698 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,542 | 13 | #6,568 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,731 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,680 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,807 | 11 | #7,688 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,533 | 8 | #9,772 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,131 | 11 | #7,415 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,436 | 12 | #6,625 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,609 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,662 | 12 | #6,248 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,407 | 7 | #9,378 |
| 2001 | 9 | #11,005 | 6 | #10,541 |
| 2000 | 6 | #15,010 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,923 | 9 | #7,128 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zekiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 443 Americans recorded as Zekiah, 21% are girls and 79% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 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 Zekiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zekiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 439 Americans named Zekiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Zekiah (94 women and girls, 190 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 700 babies since 1880, Zekiah is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 41 babies (51%), 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 Zekiah
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 Zekiah and names like it
- Compare Zekiah and ZekaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZekiah peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Zekiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zekiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.