Zachariah

What Zachariah means

Means “Yahweh has remembered”

From Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”) under influence from Latin Zacharias and Koine Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías).

Source: Wiktionary, “Zachariah” (revision 93542566), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Zachariah?

US: Falling: down from #417 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #377 in 2015, #346 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1992, when 874 boys got the name (#305 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,061 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,211 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (1.98 per 1,000 boys), NM (1.85 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.57 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Zachariah is #536 in the US and #346 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zachariah were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zechariah285 US · 17 E&W
• Zacharia17 US · 7 E&W
• Zecharia11 US
• Zacharie5 US · 4 E&W
• Zacheriah5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Zach
• Zakariah

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Zachariah

Boys

• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Aaron#80Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 15,308 babies; 4,041 in 2025
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Philip#527“fond of horses”^*
• Jeremy#292Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”^*
• Paul#262“small”^*

For a sister

• Ariel#355“lion of God”^*
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Deborah#862“bee”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Lisa#987“Locally Integrated Software Architecture”^*
• Marie#617Editor’s note Down from #560 in 2015 to #617 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zachariah’s. Rank is US 2025.