Zakariyah
#6,438 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zakariyah has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #6,438 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Zakariyah, 2025
1 in 237,000
Zakariyah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Zakariyah over time
In 2025, Zakariyah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Zakariyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,438
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zakariyah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakariyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zakariyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakariyah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zakariyah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 161
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.8% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Zakariyah 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
- +1,854
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +614
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 87.5%
- Peak was 2014 (16)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.4% average annual change
Spellings of Zakariyah
Zakariyah is not the most common spelling — Zakaria is, with 36.9% against Zakariyah's 2.1%.
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.
Zakariyah around the world
Where Zakariyah 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 & Wales1997–2025#687in 2025
- France2022–2025#5,335in 2025
- Canada2019–2019#2,943in 2019
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zakariyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zakariyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zakariyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.