girls:
13 births since 2005
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
10.8k births since 1971
#1118 (76th percentile)
overall:
10.8k births since 1971
#2544 (67th percentile)
The name Zechariah is the #2,544 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,799 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 67.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,118 (75.6% percentile) for all time with 10,786 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2005.
Zechariah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 2005 for girls).
The name Zechariah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zechariah reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 38.5% percentile (ranked #557) with 193 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 193 births per million (ranked 38.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zechariah ranks #667 for boys (26.8% percentile) with 137 births per million, which is 71.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zechariah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #956) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zechariah".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Zechariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Zechariah is pronounced as zeh-ker-AI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zeh-kuh-RAI-uh, at 16.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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