Zechariah
Zechariah reached its high-water mark in 2015 at number 656, and has been recorded 11,369 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 855th. About 11,000 Zechariahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zechariah boys named Zechariah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,369
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 656th
- Rank in 2025
- 855th
- First recorded
- 1971
- Girls / boys
- 18 / 11,351
How old the living Zechariahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,369 babies given the name since 1971, about 11,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (“the Lord has remembered”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zechariahs
- Zechariah (550 BC–449 BC)biblical prophet
- Zechariah (800 BC–751 BC)king of the Kingdom of Israel; son of Jeroboam II
People named Zechariah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zechariah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zechariah is most concentrated in Florida (2.3×), Colorado (2.0×), Georgia (1.8×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Zechariah peaked:
Zechariah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Zechariah | 327 | 1,178th |
| Ireland boys | Zechariah | 3 | 518th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.