His name was shared with three others in the Old Testament: a priest (Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25, Jeremiah 29:29; Jeremiah 37:3; Jeremiah 52:24; 2 Kings 25:18), a descendant of Kohath (1 Chronicles 6:36), and it emerges in a genealogy (Zechariah 6:10, Zechariah 6:14).
1 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.