girls:
10 births since 2006
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
10k births since 1880
#1171 (74th percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1880
#2677 (65th percentile)
The name Hezekiah is the #2,677 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,961 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,171 (74.5% percentile) for all time with 9,951 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2006.
Hezekiah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2006 for girls). Birth data for Hezekiah is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Hezekiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hezekiah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 48.9% percentile (ranked #466) with 303 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 303 births per million (ranked 48.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hezekiah is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #466 (48.9% percentile) with 303 births per million.
For girls, Hezekiah reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hezekiah".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Hezekiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.6% confident that Hezekiah is pronounced as heh-zuh-KAI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HEH-zuh-KAI-uh, at 27.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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