girls:
19 births since 2011
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
137 births since 2007
#4449 (3rd percentile)
overall:
156 births since 2007
#7583 (2nd percentile)
The name Zakariyah is the #7,583 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 156 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,449 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 137 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2011.
Zakariyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Zakariyah is available in 15 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023 (14 years for boys and 3 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 Zakariyah has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Zakariyah were boys.
For boys, Zakariyah reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #893) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zakariyah is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #900 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
For girls, Zakariyah reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zakariyah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Zakariyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.3% confident that Zakariyah is pronounced as zuh-KAH-ree-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZA-kuh-RAI-uh, at 21.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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