Hebrew origin
Source-reportedMeaning: “God is righteous”
From Hebrew צדקיהו (“God is righteous”).
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- Wiktionary: ZedekiahCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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“God is righteous”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Zedekiah is a masculine given name documented in English. English Wiktionary traces it to Hebrew צדקיהו, with the stated meaning “God is righteous”.
Meaning: “God is righteous”
From Hebrew צדקיהו (“God is righteous”).
02 / Across borders
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United States, 2025: 20 boys (rank 4857). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
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1880–2025 Spelling: Zedekiah
Recorded category boys
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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Applications | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1881 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1883 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1970 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1971 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1972 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1973 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1974 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1975 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,385 | observed |
| 1983 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,117 | observed |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | 6 | 7,422 | observed |
| 1993 | 8 | 6,228 | observed |
| 1994 | 10 | 5,452 | observed |
| 1995 | 8 | 6,407 | observed |
| 1996 | 10 | 5,535 | observed |
| 1997 | 8 | 6,618 | observed |
| 1998 | 12 | 5,159 | observed |
| 1999 | 8 | 7,139 | observed |
| 2000 | 10 | 6,316 | observed |
| 2001 | 13 | 5,390 | observed |
| 2002 | 16 | 4,703 | observed |
| 2003 | 15 | 5,035 | observed |
| 2004 | 12 | 6,138 | observed |
| 2005 | 18 | 4,631 | observed |
| 2006 | 17 | 5,072 | observed |
| 2007 | 23 | 4,243 | observed |
| 2008 | 17 | 5,249 | observed |
| 2009 | 18 | 5,102 | observed |
| 2010 | 33 | 3,308 | observed |
| 2011 | 25 | 3,994 | observed |
| 2012 | 21 | 4,533 | observed |
| 2013 | 27 | 3,753 | observed |
| 2014 | 26 | 3,891 | observed |
| 2015 | 30 | 3,591 | observed |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,441 | observed |
| 2017 | 30 | 3,586 | observed |
| 2018 | 39 | 2,994 | observed |
| 2019 | 43 | 2,851 | observed |
| 2020 | 29 | 3,653 | observed |
| 2021 | 33 | 3,427 | observed |
| 2022 | 38 | 3,151 | observed |
| 2023 | 31 | 3,629 | observed |
| 2024 | 29 | 3,793 | observed |
| 2025 | 20 | 4,857 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Zedekiah” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Zedekiah— “justice of the Lord”
As Judah sinned more and more and her fate drew on, Jeremiah stood forth as her leading prophet. His name meant exalted of the Lord, and became Jeremias in the Greek, Jeremy in vernacular English. As the name of some of the early eastern saints it has had a partial irregular sort of use in the West, and is adopted direct from the prophet in the Greco-Slavonic Churches. The French, struck by the mournful strain of the prophet, use Jeremiade to express a lamentation; and the…
As Judah sinned more and more and her fate drew on, Jeremiah stood forth as her leading prophet. His name meant exalted of the Lord, and became Jeremias in the Greek, Jeremy in vernacular English. As the name of some of the early eastern saints it has had a partial irregular sort of use in the West, and is adopted direct from the prophet in the Greco-Slavonic Churches. The French, struck by the mournful strain of the prophet, use Jeremiade to express a lamentation; and the English are rather too ready to follow their example. Jeremy is considered as another variety of equivalent for the Gaelic Diarmaid, and this has led to the frequency of Jerry among families of Irish connection. In Switzerland, Jeremias is contracted into Meies or Mies; in Russia it is Jeremija; but nowhere has it been so illustrious in modern times as in the person of our own Jeremy Taylor. The king whom Jeremiah saw led into captivity was Zedekiah (justice of the Lord).
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section VIII (Later Israelite Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
