Zachariah

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Zachariah is ranked 569th among boys in 2024 (512 births). Its best rank was 305th, in 1992.

Rank in 2024: #569up 16 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5120.03% of boys
Peak year: 1992874 births
Best rank: #305in 1992
Since 1880: 30,668people given the name

Babies named Zachariah, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

30,668 boys have been named Zachariah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 874 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 446 → 569).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Zachariah
1880s	10
1890s	5
1910s	40
1920s	50
1930s	23
1940s	22
1950s	43
1960s	25
1970s	1,901
1980s	4,984
1990s	7,640
2000s	6,631
2010s	6,635
2020s	2,659

In 1992, its biggest year

Zachariah was the 305th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Zachariah

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.