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Zadok

#4,852 in 2025Boys' name

Righteous

Zadok has been given to 536 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,852 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Zadok, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zadok: meaning, origin, and history

Righteous

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zadok means

Zadok means “righteous”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 536 boys were recorded with the name Zadok between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,367 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,013 in 2020 to #4,852 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,680 in 2015 to #4,852 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 Zadok?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,852
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zadok 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zadok. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zadoks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zadok was born before 2015 — so the typical Zadok is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
536
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (256).

Is Zadok 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
−659
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−839
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,172
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2023 (35)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,367
2012

Spellings of Zadok

Zadok is not the most common spelling — Jadon is, with 34.9% against Zadok's 1.8%.

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 Zadok is used

Across 1910–2025, Zadok was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 667,308 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Zadok has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zadok around the world

Where Zadok 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
    2008–2023
    #3,113
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zadok by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,852
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 839
Best rank ever
#3,367
2012
Peak year
2023
35 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
536
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Zadok

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

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Sibling names for Zadok

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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