Jeziah
Masculine · “the Lord sprinkles”
Jeziah is given to both — 667 boys and 42 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Jeziah belongs to the class of Hebrew names that end in the divine name — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah — and it has a small biblical bearer of its own in the book of Ezra.
How old is the name Jeziah?
Jeziah first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Jeziah is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Jeziah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeziah most popular?
Jeziah peaked in 2023, reaching #2480 nationally. Today it ranks #3314, 834 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Izziah to Jeziah
The story of Jeziah
The -iah ending marks a whole class of Hebrew names built as short sentences about God, and Izziah is one of the smallest of them — a single verse among the men who returned from exile. English Bibles render it variously, and Jeziah is one of the older English spellings. Its modern American use is recent and belongs to a broader revival of long Old Testament names alongside Nehemiah, Josiah and Zephaniah.
Meaningscholars disagree
the Lord sprinkles, or the Lord gathers
The biblical Izziah, sometimes written Jeziah, appears once in Ezra. The first element is read either as a verb meaning to sprinkle, in the ritual sense, or as one meaning to gather; the -iah ending is the divine name and is not in doubt.
How the name formed
- Izziah
- Jeziah
Related forms: Izziah · Jezías
Pronouncing Jeziah
juh-ZY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say JEZ-ee-ah.
Nicknames for Jeziah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2000
- Most boys named
- 202354 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2480reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −10.3%35 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jeziah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Izziah in Hebrew — same name
- Jezías in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Jeziahs among us
people named Jeziah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 48,802 born in 2025 was named Jeziah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeziah
- #3314
- Jeziah on the 2025 chart
- #632
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeziah went to 35 boys in 2025, but Jesiah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 312, which makes it the 632nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,682 places above the chart.
- Jesiah277
- Jeziah35
About 1 boy in 5,475 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 48,802 for Jeziah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marcy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeziah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marcy climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marcy's path sketches the road Jeziah is walking now.
Jeziah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jeziah is headed
Jeziah looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 17% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jeziah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeziah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuine biblical name stands behind it, which many modern -iah names cannot claim.
- Ziah is a ready short form that sounds entirely current.
- It sits in visible company with Josiah, Isaiah and Nehemiah.
- Josiah and Isaiah are both far more common and will be misheard for it.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- The meaning has two readings, so the answer to what it means has a fork in it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeziahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jeziah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeziah?
- Jeziah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jesiah is the more common one — 277 births in 2025 against 35 for Jeziah.
- How popular is the name Jeziah in 2025?
- Jeziah ranks #3314 among US boy names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeziah?
- About 1 in every 48,802 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeziah — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeziah with classmates?
- Jeziah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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