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Zedekiah

#5,042 in 2025Boys' name

God is righteous

Zedekiah has been given to 725 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,042 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Zedekiah, 2025

1 in 166,000

Zedekiah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zedekiah: meaning, origin, and history

God is righteous

Hebrew

What Zedekiah means

Zedekiah means “God is righteous”, associated with צדקיהו.

Origin, language, and formation

Zedekiah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Zedekiah comes through Hebrew צדקיהו.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 725 boys were recorded with the name Zedekiah between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,895 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,728 in 2020 to #5,042 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,682 in 2015 to #5,042 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 Zedekiah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,042
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zedekiah 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zedekiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zedekiahs were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
725
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2010s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (306).

Is Zedekiah 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
−1,149
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,314
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,360
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.5%
Peak was 2019 (43)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,895
2019

Spellings of Zedekiah

Zedekiah is not the most common spelling — Hezekiah is, with 70.7% against Zedekiah's 4.6%.

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 Zedekiah is used

Across 1910–2025, Zedekiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 625,117 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Tennessee1 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. Zedekiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zedekiah around the world

Where Zedekiah 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
    2006–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2014–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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.

Zedekiah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,042
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,314
Best rank ever
#2,895
2019
Peak year
2019
43 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
725
Count in 2025
20

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