Zacharia
Masculine · “The Lord has remembered”
Zacharia is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,736 boys against 22 girls since 1880.
Zacharia is the Latin and Greek shape of a Hebrew sentence: the Lord has remembered. It has more history than the American Zachary that displaced it, and the final -a rather than -ah is a spelling used across Swahili, German and Arabic-influenced naming as well as in English.
How old is the name Zacharia?
Zacharia first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Zacharia alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,700 people named Zacharia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zacharia most popular?
Zacharia peaked in 1989, reaching #1516 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 3,883 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Zĕḵaryāh to Zacharia
The story of Zacharia
Two Zechariahs carry the name: the minor prophet whose book closes with a vision of the day of the Lord, and the father of John the Baptist, struck dumb until he wrote the child's name on a tablet. The Latin Zacharia was the standard form throughout the Middle Ages, and it survived into modern use in Germany, in the Arabic Zakariyya, and in East Africa through missionary Bible translation, where Zakaria is an ordinary Swahili name. Its American record is mixed: some bearers are from the English biblical revival, some from African and Middle Eastern families, and the 1989 peak sits inside the enormous American rise of Zachary in the same decade.
Meaning
The Lord has remembered
From Hebrew Zĕḵaryāh, from zāḵar, to remember, and the divine name Yah. The reading is settled. Greek gave Zacharias and Latin Zacharia; English forms Zachariah, Zachary and Zachery all descend from the same. The -a ending is the Latinized one and is also the standard Swahili and East African spelling.
How the name formed
- Zĕḵaryāh
- Zacharias
- Zacharia
Related forms: Ζαχαρίας · Zakariyya · Zakaria · Zacharias · Zaccaria
Pronouncing Zacharia
zak-uh-RY-uh
Four syllables, stress on the third. German and Greek put it on the third as well; the Arabic Zakariyya moves it to the fourth. English speakers sometimes say zak-AR-ee-uh, pulling it forward.
Nicknames for Zacharia
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
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 200257 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1516reached in 1989
- Change vs 2024
- +30.8%17 in 2025, from 13
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.
Zacharia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ζαχαρίας in Greek — related form
- Zakariyya in Arabic — related form
- Zakaria in Swahili — spelling variant
- Zacharias in German — related form
- Zaccaria in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Zacharias among us
people named Zacharia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Zacharia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zacharia
- #5399
- Zacharia on the 2025 chart
- #472
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zacharia went to 17 boys in 2025, but Zachariah and Zacharyah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 580, which makes it the 472nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,927 places above the chart.
- Zachariah558
- Zacharia17
- Zacharyah5
About 1 boy in 2,945 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,475 for Zacharia 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 Thayne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zacharia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Thayne climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Thayne's path sketches the road Zacharia is walking now.
Zacharia 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
Zacharia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zacharia 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 unusually warm — a promise remembered.
- Zach is available instantly as an ordinary short form.
- It is recognizable across Christian, Muslim and East African naming.
- Zachariah is the commoner English spelling and will be written for it.
- Four syllables is long and the name will be shortened immediately.
- Zachary is so dominant in America that the longer form reads as its formal version.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zacharias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Zacharia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zacharia?
- Zacharia is one of 3 recorded spellings. Zachariah is the more common one — 558 births in 2025 against 17 for Zacharia.
- How popular is the name Zacharia in 2025?
- Zacharia ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zacharia?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Zacharia — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zacharia with classmates?
- Zacharia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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