girls:
5 births since 2008
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
444 births since 1975
#4142 (10th percentile)
overall:
449 births since 1975
#7290 (6th percentile)
The name Zacariah is the #7,290 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 449 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,142 (9.6% percentile) for all time with 444 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2008.
Zacariah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Zacariah is available in 42 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 1 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 Zacariah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zacariah reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #869) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zacariah ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 50.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zacariah reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #984) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zacariah".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Zacariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.3% confident that Zacariah is pronounced as za-ker-AI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZA-kuh-RAI-uh, at 18.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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