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How popular is “Zachariah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Zachariah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Zachariah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Zachariah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Zachariah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Zachariah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Zachariah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Zachariah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 16 0.000004436 16 -100%
1971 63 0.000018355 63 -100%
1972 134 0.000042635 134 -100%
1973 155 0.000051377 155 -100%
1974 159 0.000052303 159 -100%
1975 186 0.000061602 186 -100%
1976 234 0.000077118 234 -100%
1977 281 0.000088462 281 -100%
1978 302 0.000095152 302 -100%
1979 371 0.000111512 371 -100%
1980 406 0.000117869 406 -100%
1981 384 0.000111003 384 -100%
1982 459 0.000130845 459 -100%
1983 447 0.000129066 7 440 -97%
1984 435 0.000124686 5 430 -98%
1985 491 0.000137569 491 -100%
1986 503 0.000141408 5 498 -98%
1987 538 0.000149212 538 -100%
1988 640 0.000173205 640 -100%
1989 698 0.000181561 698 -100%
1990 757 0.000191525 757 -100%
1991 833 0.000213849 833 -100%
1992 874 0.000227529 874 -100%
1993 810 0.000214838 810 -100%
1994 809 0.00021761 809 -100%
1995 772 0.000210805 772 -100%
1996 716 0.000196315 716 -100%
1997 706 0.000194718 706 -100%
1998 692 0.000188135 5 687 -99%
1999 676 0.000183006 676 -100%
2000 705 0.000186513 5 700 -99%
2001 658 0.000175776 658 -100%
2002 660 0.000176551 660 -100%
2003 688 0.000180942 688 -100%
2004 625 0.000163573 5 620 -98%
2005 667 0.000173479 667 -100%
2006 691 0.000174663 691 -100%
2007 640 0.000160093 640 -100%
2008 650 0.000165366 650 -100%
2009 657 0.000171982 657 -100%
2010 608 0.000164514 5 603 -98%
2011 581 0.000158839 581 -100%
2012 643 0.00017581 643 -100%
2013 754 0.000206821 754 -100%
2014 667 0.00017996 667 -100%
2015 746 0.000201572 746 -100%
2016 710 0.000193529 710 -100%
2017 705 0.000197137 705 -100%
2018 607 0.000172644 607 -100%
2019 619 0.000178338 619 -100%
2020 552 0.000165241 552 -100%
2021 540 0.000159388 540 -100%
2022 565 0.000167005 565 -100%
2023 490 0.000147983 490 -100%
2024 512 0.000153823 512 -100%

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