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Zakariya

#1,130 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Zakariyya

Zakariya has been given to 2,558 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,130 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 189 recorded.

Babies named Zakariya, 2025

1 in 17,500

Zakariya over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakariya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zakariyya

Arabic

What Zakariya means

Zakariya is a alternate transcription of Zakariyya.

Origin, language, and formation

Zakariya is used in English and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zakariyya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Zakariya is pronounced /zakaɾia/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,511 boys were recorded with the name Zakariya between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 189 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,130 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,396 in 2020 to #1,130 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,452 in 2015 to #1,130 in 2025.

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Zakariya between 2000 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,016 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zakariya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,500
189 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,040
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,130
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,159 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakariya 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,159 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakariya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakariyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakariya was born before 2016 — so the typical Zakariya is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,511
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (1,019).

Is Zakariya 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
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+266
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+322
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.62×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (189)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,130
2025

Spellings of Zakariya

Zakariya is not the most common spelling — Zakary is, with 39.0% against Zakariya's 17.4%.

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 Zakariya is used

Across 2016–2025, Zakariya was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,381 boys, against 1 in 10,953 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

142 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,381
  2. 2New York1 in 5,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 5,882
  4. 4Michigan1 in 6,250
  5. 5Ohio1 in 7,692
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 8,333
  7. 7Virginia1 in 8,333
  8. 8California1 in 14,286

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.

Zakariya around the world

Where Zakariya 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
    #120
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2025
    #262
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1977–2025
    #309
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #510
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2011
    #487
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zakariya

People whose public names include Zakariya, 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.

Zakariya in other languages

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

SakariZacharyZakariaZacariasZaccariaZachariaZacharieZakariasZachariahZachariasZakariyyaZechariahSakariasSakaríasZacaríasZakariásZakaríasZekeriyaSachariasZachariášZachariasz

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

Zakariya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,130
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 266
Best rank ever
#1,130
2025
Peak year
2025
189 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,511
Count in 2025
189

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,016
2000
Peak year
2000
13 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zakariya

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

ZakariaZakariahZakariJiraiyaZakaryZakariyeZakhariZakaiZakkaryZakariyyaZakeryZakariyahZakiZakirZakeeZakiahZakhiZakariasZakkeryZakhaiZakZakarriZakaryaZakkai

Names with a curve like Zakariya

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

LakenZavianMattiasIlyasTaylenDenimBryerGadielJakobiYeshuaJessiahKylin

Sibling names for Zakariya

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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