boys:
27 births since 2022
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
27 births since 2022
#7712 (0th percentile)
The name Heziah is the #7,712 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27 recorded births since 2022. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 2022.
Heziah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2022 (first recorded for boys in 2022).
For boys, Heziah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #911) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Currently, Heziah ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 51.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Heziah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Heziah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.7% confident that Heziah is pronounced as heh-ZAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hee-ZAI-uh, at 16.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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