# Hezekiah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hezekiah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “hezekiah” |
| Pronunciation | /ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,228 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,213 / 15 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 378, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (Ḥizqiyáhu, “Hezekiah”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 18,179 |
| 2020 | 5 | 16,016 |
| 2025 | 5 | 15,773 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 242 | 870 |
| 2012 | 268 | 821 |
| 2013 | 242 | 873 |
| 2014 | 303 | 772 |
| 2015 | 377 | 673 |
| 2016 | 378 | 676 |
| 2017 | 432 | 611 |
| 2018 | 432 | 620 |
| 2019 | 427 | 632 |
| 2020 | 479 | 578 |
| 2021 | 495 | 570 |
| 2022 | 489 | 586 |
| 2023 | 557 | 531 |
| 2024 | 631 | 490 |
| 2025 | 621 | 485 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,570 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1,284 |
| 2019 | 22 | 1,189 |
| 2020 | 30 | 944 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1,250 |
| 2022 | 23 | 1,179 |
| 2023 | 36 | 874 |
| 2024 | 27 | 1,076 |
| 2025 | 37 | 856 |

## In other languages

- Greek: Εζεκίας
- Italian: Ezechia
- Polish: Ezechiasz
- Portuguese: Ezequias

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.