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Hezekiah

The name Hezekiah carries the meaning "God strengthens". It is having a real moment, more popular in the 2010s than ever before. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

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EtymologyMeaning "God strengthens"
Births by decade
1900s
112
1910s
328
1920s
395
1930s
278
1940s
285
1950s
254
1960s
143
1970s
153
1980s
152
1990s
501
2000s
1,789
2010s
2,439
Peaked in the 2010s · 6,829 total U.S. births since 1900