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Zadkiel

#3,749 in 2025Boys' name

God is my righteousness

Zadkiel has been given to 393 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #3,749 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Zadkiel, 2025

1 in 111,000

Zadkiel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zadkiel: meaning, origin, and history

God is my righteousness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zadkiel means

Zadkiel means “God is my righteousness”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 393 boys were recorded with the name Zadkiel between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,594 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,847 in 2020 to #3,749 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,880 in 2015 to #3,749 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.

How common is Zadkiel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,749
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zadkiel 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zadkiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zadkiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zadkiel was born before 2019 — so the typical Zadkiel is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
393
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Zadkiel 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
−1,155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,098
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,131
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.7%
Peak was 2024 (52)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,594
2024

Spellings of Zadkiel

Zadkiel is not the most common spelling — Adriel is, with 65.2% against Zadkiel's 0.76%.

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 Zadkiel is used

Across 1910–2025, Zadkiel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 532,652 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Zadkiel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zadkiel around the world

Where Zadkiel 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.

  • France
    2025–2025
    #6,162
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zadkiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,749
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,098
Best rank ever
#2,594
2024
Peak year
2024
52 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
393
Count in 2025
30

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