Zephaniah

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zephaniah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zephaniah: Recorded every year since 2000, its highest recorded position is #814, and it stood at #981 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#814highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#5785
2020	#5493
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2000 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3036 among boys in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #814 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #981 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Zephaniah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 478 births with the name.

Zephaniah across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zephaniah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3036 (2000)	#814 (2023)	#981 (2024)	25 of 25	478 (2000–2024)	40 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2011)	#4709 (2023)	#4709 (2023)	3 of 13	10 (2011–2023)	4 (2023)

Zephaniah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zephaniah in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	75	10 of 10	8
2010s	234	10 of 10	23
2020sbusiest	169	5 of 10	34

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 34 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zephaniah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #814 in England and Wales in 2023.

Zephaniah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#981	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#814	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#844	37	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1004	29	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#898	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#929	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#958	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1097	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#914	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #814, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
25 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#981position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
40births registered in its largest year, 202325 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Zeph · #2220, 16y
Zephan · #1981, 20y
Zephyr · #815, 22y
Zerya · #3151, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hisham · #814, 29y
Ozan · #814, 29y
Percival · #814, 21y
Romario · #813, 29y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Layla-Mae · #813, 18y
Zephyr · #815, 22y
Effy · #812, 18y
Nansi · #812, 22y

Zephaniah was ranked #814 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zephaniah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zephaniah without appearing here.

Zephaniah moved ahead of

Henrik Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1494 and #1494 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1407 and #3332.
Gustav Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2097 and #1828 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1494 and #3227.
Hans Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2097 and #1511 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1494 and #3227.
Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2211 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #2097 and #3687.

Moved the opposite way to Zephaniah

Aaron Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 while Aaron went from #36 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 while Alan went from #262 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 while Alex went from #48 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zephaniah

Albie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 and Albie from #624 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 and Alfie from #57 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 and Alfred from #139 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zephaniah went from #3036 to #981 and Archie from #81 to #10.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #814 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zephaniah

Zephaniah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zephaniah across 2 official records

Zephaniah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zephaniah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Zephaniah and the names beside it

Zephaniah moved ahead of

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Zephaniah at a glance

Zephaniah across 2 official records

Zephaniah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zephaniah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Zephaniah

Zephaniah and the names beside it

Zephaniah moved ahead of

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