girls:
37 births since 1983
#5679 (1st percentile)
boys:
30.1k births since 1880
#667 (85th percentile)
overall:
30.2k births since 1880
#1463 (81st percentile)
The name Zachariah is the #1,463 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 30,179 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #667 (85.5% percentile) for all time with 30,142 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,679 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1983.
Zachariah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1983 for girls). Birth data for Zachariah is available in 89 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (89 years for boys and 7 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 Zachariah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zachariah reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 62.7% percentile (ranked #288) with 416 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 416 births per million (ranked 62.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zachariah ranks #503 for boys (44.8% percentile) with 265 births per million, which is 63.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zachariah reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #773) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zachariah".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Zachariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.9% confident that Zachariah is pronounced as za-ker-AI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZA-kuh-RAI-uh, at 11.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Z AE0 K ER0 AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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