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Zacharias

#3,945 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh has remembered

Zacharias has been given to 2,074 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #3,945 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Zacharias, 2025

1 in 118,000

Zacharias over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zacharias: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh has remembered

Hebrew

What Zacharias means

Zacharias means “Yahweh has remembered”, associated with Zəḵaryā.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Zacharias (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Zacharias is used in English, Danish and German. Its origins include Hebrew.

Zacharias comes through Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας and Hebrew זְכַרְיָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zakarias.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,074 boys were recorded with the name Zacharias between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,674 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,188 in 2020 to #3,945 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,953 in 2015 to #3,945 in 2025.

How common is Zacharias?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,945
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zacharias sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zacharias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zachariass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zacharias was born before 2007 — so the typical Zacharias is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,069
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (638).

Is Zacharias rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−345
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,757
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,992
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.8%
Peak was 2016 (94)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,674
1993

Spellings of Zacharias

Zacharias is not the most common spelling — Zachariah is, with 60.6% against Zacharias's 4.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zacharias is used

Across 2016–2025, Zacharias was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 41,859 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Zacharias around the world

Where Zacharias ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • France
    1994–2010
    #5,448
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Zacharias

People whose public names include Zacharias, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zacharias in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zacharias. Linked forms have their own page here.

SakariZacharyZakariaZacariasZaccariaZachariaZacharieZakariasZachariahZackariasZechariahZakaríaSakariasSakaríasZacaríasZakariásZakaríasZekeriyaSachariasZachariasz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zacharias by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,945
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,757
Best rank ever
#1,674
1993
Peak year
2016
94 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,074
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Zacharias

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Zacharias

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zacharias, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarshawnSaadKekoaFaisalKamranAramisArenMahmoudKlaytonVikramJairusNaeem

Sibling names for Zacharias

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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