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Hezekiah

#485 in 2025Boys' name

Strength + my, through חזקיהו

Hezekiah has been given to 11,228 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #485 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 631 recorded.

Babies named Hezekiah, 2025

1 in 5,340

Hezekiah over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hezekiah: meaning, origin, and history

Strength + my, through חזקיהו

Hebrew

What Hezekiah means

Hezekiah belongs to the name family reached through Hezekiah → חזקיהו. Its meaning is “strength + my”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hezekiah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Hezekiah comes through Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה and Hebrew חזקיהו.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include חזקיהו.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hezekiah is pronounced /ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,213 boys were recorded with the name Hezekiah between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 631 in 2024; its best national rank was #435 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #578 in 2020 to #485 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #673 in 2015 to #485 in 2025.

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Hezekiah between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #15,769 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,011 in 2020 to #15,769 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hezekiah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,340
621 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,750
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#485
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,701 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hezekiah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,701 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hezekiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hezekiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hezekiah was born before 2014 — so the typical Hezekiah is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,580
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (3,320).

Is Hezekiah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+93
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+188
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.4%
Peak was 2024 (631)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#435
1891

Spellings of Hezekiah

Hezekiah is the most-used spelling, taking 83.4% of the 13,452 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hezekiah is used

Across 2016–2025, Hezekiah was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 312 boys, against 1 in 3,259 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 12,500).

8321 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 312
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 847
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 1,852
  4. 4Kansas1 in 1,961
  5. 5Colorado1 in 2,041
  6. 6Alaska1 in 2,222
  7. 7Washington1 in 2,273
  8. 8Indiana1 in 2,381

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Hezekiah is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 99% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Hezekiah around the world

Where Hezekiah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #856
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2023
    #4,881
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #857
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Hezekiah

People whose public names include Hezekiah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hezekiah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Hezekiah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Ezekia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Hezekiah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#485
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 93
Best rank ever
#435
1891
Peak year
2024
631 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,213
Count in 2025
621

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,769
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 242
Best rank ever
#15,769
2025
Peak year
2006
5 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Hezekiah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Hezekiah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hezekiah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hezekiah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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