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Zakariyya

#7,178 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Zechariah

Zakariyya has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #7,178 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Zakariyya, 2025

1 in 276,000

Zakariyya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakariyya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Zechariah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakariyya means

Zakariyya is a form of Zechariah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zakariyya → Zechariah. The family’s meaning is “the Lord has remembered”, recorded in English with the source elements zəḵaryā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zechariah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 266 boys were recorded with the name Zakariyya between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,935 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,713 in 2020 to #7,178 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,053 in 2015 to #7,178 in 2025.

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 Zakariyya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,178
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakariyya 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakariyya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakariyyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakariyya was born before 2014 — so the typical Zakariyya is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
266
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Zakariyya 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
+1,115
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,535
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−125
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2016 (20)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,935
2016

Spellings of Zakariyya

Zakariyya is not the most common spelling — Zakaria is, with 50.9% against Zakariyya's 4.7%.

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.

Zakariyya around the world

Where Zakariyya 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
    #529
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2022
    #590
    in 2022
  • France
    1998–2025
    #4,414
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

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.

Zakariyya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,178
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,535
Best rank ever
#4,935
2016
Peak year
2016
20 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
266
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Zakariyya

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

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Sibling names for Zakariyya

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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