Zachariah
Masculine · “the Lord has remembered”
Zachariah is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 31,238 boys against 37 girls since 1880.
Zachariah is the fuller, older-looking spelling of a name that has been read aloud in English churches since the first printed Bible translations — the prophet's name in the Hebrew scriptures, and the priest's name in Luke. Four syllables that rise in the middle and land soft: zak-uh-RY-uh. It arrives with a ready-made short form that everyone already knows how to say.
How old is the name Zachariah?
Zachariah was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Zachariah alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 30,500 people named Zachariah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zachariah most popular?
Zachariah peaked in 1992, reaching #305 nationally. Today it ranks #536, 231 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
Where it comes from
From Zekharyah to Zachariah
The story of Zachariah
The name belongs first to Hebrew scripture, where Zechariah son of Berechiah prophesied in Jerusalem during the rebuilding of the Temple in the sixth century BC. Greek-speaking translators wrote it Zacharias, and that is the form the New Testament uses for the priest who is told he will have a son, John. Latin carried it into medieval Europe, and English Bible translators of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries produced the two spellings still in use: Zechariah for the prophet, Zacharias for the priest, with Zachariah as the anglicized middle road. The Quran knows the same figure as Zakariyya, which is why the name travels comfortably across three traditions.
Meaning
the Lord has remembered
From Hebrew Zekharyah, combining the verb zakhar, 'to remember', with a short form of the divine name.
How the name formed
- Zekharyah
- Zacharias
- Zacharie
- Zachariah
- Zachary
Related forms: Zacharias · Zakariyya · Zacarías · Zacharie · Zakhar · Zaccaria
Pronouncing Zachariah
zak-uh-RY-uh
Stress on the third syllable. The final -ah is unstressed, close to 'uh'. The opening Z is a plain English z, not a ts.
Nicknames for Zachariah
High
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
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 1992874 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #305reached in 1992
- Change vs 2023
- +13.9%558 in 2025, from 490
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.
Zachariah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zacharias in Greek — same name
- Zakariyya in Arabic — transliteration
- Zacarías in Spanish — same name
- Zacharie in French — same name
- Zakhar in Russian — related form
- Zaccaria in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Zachariahs among us
people named Zachariah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 3,061 born in 2025 was named Zachariah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zachariah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hal climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hal's path sketches the road Zachariah is walking now.
Zachariah 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
Where Zachariah is headed
Zachariah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Zachariah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zachariah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled, undisputed meaning in Hebrew — 'the Lord has remembered' — which is rare enough among names this old.
- The short forms Zach, Zack and Zac need no explaining anywhere in the English-speaking world.
- Recognized in Jewish, Christian and Muslim tradition, with a matching form in Arabic, Spanish, French, Greek and Russian.
- Long, formal and complete on a document, while still collapsing to one syllable in conversation.
- Three English spellings compete: Zachariah, Zechariah and Zacharias, plus the shorter Zachary. Expect to spell it out often, and expect forms to come back with the wrong vowel in the second syllable.
- The nickname is far more common than the full name, so a Zachariah will meet plenty of Zachs — most of them Zacharys underneath. If the long form matters to you, it will need consistent use at home.
- Four syllables is a lot to pair with a long surname, and worth saying aloud in full a few times before you decide.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zachariahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 30,500 people named Zachariah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Zachariah in 2025?
- Zachariah ranks #536 among US boy names in 2025, with 558 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zachariah?
- About 1 in every 3,061 US boys born in 2025 was named Zachariah — 558 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zachariah with classmates?
- Zachariah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Zachariah
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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