Zakariah
Masculine · “the Lord has remembered”
Zakariah is given to both — 914 boys and 93 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Zakariah is a spelling of Zechariah, a Hebrew name that reads as a small statement of faith: the Lord has remembered. It belongs to a prophet and to the father of John the Baptist.
How old is the name Zakariah?
Zakariah first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Zakariah alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 900 people named Zakariah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zakariah most popular?
Zakariah peaked in 2014, reaching #2929 nationally. Today it ranks #3450, 521 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Zekharyah to Zakariah
The story of Zakariah
Zechariah is a very common name in the Hebrew Bible — a prophet, a king of Israel, and many others — and the New Testament gives it to the father of John the Baptist. It became Zacharias in Greek and Zakariya in Arabic, where it names a prophet as well. English Protestants took it up after the Reformation. Zakariah, with the k, is the spelling most used in Muslim families and in modern American records.
Meaning
the Lord has remembered
From Hebrew Zekharyah, joining a verb meaning to remember to a form of the divine name; the same construction gives Jeremiah, Isaiah and Obadiah their endings.
How the name formed
- Zekharyah
- Zacharias
- Zakariah
Related forms: Zechariah · Zakariya · Zacarías · Zakhar
Pronouncing Zakariah
zak-uh-RY-ah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Arabic gives za-ka-REE-ya.
Nicknames for Zakariah
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
- 1981
- Most boys named
- 200939 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2929reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −2.9%33 in 2025, from 34
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.
Zakariah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zechariah in English — spelling variant
- Zakariya in Arabic — same name
- Zacarías in Spanish — same name
- Zakhar in Russian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Illinois.
Zakariahs among us
people named Zakariah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 51,760 born in 2025 was named Zakariah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zakariah
- #3450
- Zakariah on the 2025 chart
- #561
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zakariah went to 33 boys in 2025, but Zakariya, Zakaria and Zackariah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 9 spellings went to 406, which makes it the 561st most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,889 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 boy in 4,207 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,760 for Zakariah 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 Babatunde test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zakariah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Babatunde climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Babatunde's path sketches the road Zakariah is walking now.
Zakariah 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 Zakariah is headed
Zakariah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Zakariah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zakariah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Zak is available immediately as a plain short form.
- It is recognized in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions alike.
- Zechariah, Zachariah and Zakariah are all in use and this spelling is the least written in English.
- Nine letters and four syllables is a great deal for early handwriting.
- The stress differs between the English and Arabic readings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zakariahs 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 Zakariah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zakariah?
- Zakariah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Zakariya is the more common one — 189 births in 2025 against 33 for Zakariah.
- How popular is the name Zakariah in 2025?
- Zakariah ranks #3450 among US boy names in 2025, with 33 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zakariah?
- About 1 in every 51,760 US boys born in 2025 was named Zakariah — 33 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zakariah with classmates?
- Zakariah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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