Zachari
Masculine · “Hebrew zekharyah”
Zachary and Zechariah are the same man in two translations. The Latin Vulgate gave English Zacharias, which became Zachary; the King James translators, working from Hebrew, gave Zechariah. Catholics and Protestants ended up with different spellings of a single prophet, and English kept both as separate names.
How old is the name Zachari?
Zachari first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Zachari alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 900 people named Zachari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zachari most popular?
Zachari peaked in 1985, reaching #1916 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 6,327 places below that high. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
From zekharyah to Zachari
The story of Zachari
Which route a biblical name took into English decides how it looks, and the routes split at the Reformation. Names that arrived earlier came through Greek and Latin, picking up Greek endings and Latin spellings on the way: Jacobus gave James, Iesous gave Jesus, Zacharias gave Zachary, Elias gave Elias and Elijah both. Names that arrived with the sixteenth and seventeenth-century translations came more directly from Hebrew and look it: Zechariah, Jeremiah, Obadiah, Hezekiah. The two layers sit side by side in English and are often taken for unrelated names. A useful test is the ending: a name ending -iah has come the Hebrew way, and one ending -ias or -y has come through Greek. Zachari, with neither, is a third and modern thing.
Meaning
Hebrew zekharyah, Yah has remembered
From Hebrew zakhar, he remembered, and yah, the divine name: Yah has remembered. The name belongs to a minor prophet, to the father of John the Baptist, and to several other biblical figures. Zachary descends through the Greek and Latin Zacharias; Zechariah is a direct transliteration of the Hebrew. Zachari is a modern American spelling that drops the final consonant of Zachary and leaves the -i ending bare. It peaks in 1985.
How the name formed
- zekharyah
- Zacharias
- Zachary
- Zachari
Related forms: Zachary · Zechariah · Zacharie
Pronouncing Zachari
ZAK-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. Identical to Zachary. The ch is said as k, from the Greek chi used to transliterate the Hebrew kaf, which is also why chorus and character have hard c sounds.
Nicknames for Zachari
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
- 1977
- Most boys named
- 199136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1916reached in 1985
- Change vs 2024
- −35.7%9 in 2025, from 14
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.
Zachari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zachary in English — spelling variant
- Zechariah in English — related form
- Zacharie in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Zacharis among us
people named Zachari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Zachari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zachari
- #8243
- Zachari on the 2025 chart
- #218
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zachari went to 9 boys in 2025, but Zachary is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 1,655, which makes it the 218th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,025 places above the chart.
- Zachary1,646
- Zachari9
About 1 boy in 1,032 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 189,786 for Zachari 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 Nazario test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zachari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nazario climbed just as high around 1947, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nazario's path sketches the road Zachari is walking now.
Zachari 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
Zachari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zachari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and comes with a well documented biblical history.
- Zach is one of the most usable short forms in English.
- The spelling is short and reads cleanly.
- Zachary is far more common and will be written by default.
- The -i ending reads as female to some American eyes.
- Zachari, Zachary, Zackary and Zackery all compete.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zacharis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Zachari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zachari?
- Zachari is one of 2 recorded spellings. Zachary is the more common one — 1,646 births in 2025 against 9 for Zachari.
- How popular is the name Zachari in 2025?
- Zachari ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zachari?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Zachari — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zachari with classmates?
- Zachari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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