Zeruiah

#7,482 in 2025Girls' name

Balm, salve

Zeruiah has been given to 88 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #7,482 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Zeruiah, 2025

1 in 221,000

Zeruiah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeruiah: meaning, origin, and history

Balm, salve

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zeruiah means

Zeruiah means “balm, salve”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 88 girls were recorded with the name Zeruiah between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,482 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,049 in 2020 to #7,482 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Zeruiah?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 221,000; 15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 107,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,482; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 153,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zeruiah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeruiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zeruiahs were born

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

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 88; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Zeruiah 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: +10,203; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +7,567; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (15)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,482; 2025

Spellings of Zeruiah

Zeruiah is not the most common spelling — Zariah is, with 70.7% against Zeruiah's 0.44%.

Zariah70.7%14,164
Neriah18.2%3,651
Meriah4.5%910
Zoriah3.5%694
Zyriah2.6%520
Zeruiah0.44%88

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.

Zeruiah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,482
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 7,567
Best rank ever: #7,482; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 15 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 88
Count in 2025: 15

Names similar to Zeruiah

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

Zeriah Zeriyah Zerriah Bithiah Anariah Kalaiah Amiriah Aayliah Amoriah Lamyiah Emiliah Jenniah Mikaiah Calliah Merliah Zerline Adoniah Amaliah Kahliah Izariah Kalyiah Zerina Naryiah Zerlina

Sibling names for Zeruiah

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Kale Aaden Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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