girls:
94 births since 1999
#5622 (2nd percentile)
boys:
301 births since 1999
#4285 (7th percentile)
overall:
395 births since 1999
#7344 (5th percentile)
The name Zekiah is the #7,344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 395 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,285 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 301 births since 1999. For girls, it ranks #5,622 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1999.
Zekiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 .
The name Zekiah has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Zekiah were boys.
For boys, Zekiah reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #907) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zekiah ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 58.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zekiah reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #901) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zekiah".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Zekiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.3% confident that Zekiah is pronounced as zih-KAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zeh-KAI-uh, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Z IH0 K 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.
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