Zakharia

Girls' name

The Lord has remembered

Zakharia has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Zakharia, 2012

1 in 732,000

Zakharia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakharia: meaning, origin, and history

The Lord has remembered

Dutch

What Zakharia means

Zakharia means “the Lord has remembered”, associated with zəḵaryā.

Origin, language, and formation

Zakharia is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Dutch.

Zakharia comes through Hebrew זְכַרְיָה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Zakharia is pronounced /zaxaˈria/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Zakharia between 2009 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2009; its best national rank was #19,473 in 2012.

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 Zakharia?

Zakharia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,051 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zakharia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakharia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakharias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakharia was born before 2011 — so the typical Zakharia is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Zakharia 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2009 (5)
Years since peak: 16; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #19,473; 2012

Spellings of Zakharia

Zakharia is not the most common spelling — Zahara is, with 55.5% against Zakharia's 0.23%.

Zahara55.5%3,609
Zharia15.7%1,020
Zahria15.1%979
Zamaria13.5%880
Zakharia0.23%15

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.

Zakharia around the world

Where Zakharia 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.

France
1994–2024
#6,236
in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Zakharia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #19,473; 2012
Peak year: 2009; 5 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 15
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zakharia

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

Zakerria Zakoria Zakiria Zakyria Zakeria Avemaria Zakkiyah Zakylah Zakaiyah Zakaria Auzaria Zakaylah Zakyriah Yamaria Zakariyah Zakariya Lunamaria Walkiria Centeria Chambria Shakuria Zakhari Wysteria Shakyria

Sibling names for Zakharia

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

For a sister

Diya Gisele Maliah Cailyn Shira Dalila Kylah Ireland

For a brother

Aaden Chace Teagan Konner Jovani Braiden Draven Jerimiah

Explore around Zakharia

Top names of 2009, Zakharia's peak year The 2000s in full Other names that peaked in 2012 Girls' names starting with Z