Zacariah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- zak-a-RY-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Zacariah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God has remembered”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Zacariah mean?
Hebrew: variant of Zechariah
“God has remembered”
Zechariah is the name of an Old Testament prophet and of the father of John the Baptist.
Is Zacariah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zacariah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zacariah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Zacariah, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2003, with 5 boys.
2025 had more boys named Zacariah than any year since 2015.
In 2025, 153 boys in the UK were given Zacariah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #332, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Zacariah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #3,527 |
| 2014 | 1 | #6,179 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 4 | #3,836 |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 4 | #3,522 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #3,792 |
| 2003 | 5 | #2,574 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #3,255 |
How popular is Zacariah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Zacariah, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1975.
Half of all the boys named Zacariah in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 618 boys in the US were given Zacariah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #490, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Zacariah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,400 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,714 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,572 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,737 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,482 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,068 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,819 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,388 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,581 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,157 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,460 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,636 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,528 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,495 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,103 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,353 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,652 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,263 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,898 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,781 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,567 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,517 |
| 1984 | 7 | #4,969 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,523 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,401 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,056 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,462 |
Nicknames for Zacariah
Names like Zacariah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zakariya Ibrahim Azariah Josiah Muhammad Musa Abdullah Elijah Zakaria Noah Hamza Jeremiah
Other spellings of Zacariah
Names related to Zacariah
More Hebrew names
Isabella James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias Mateo Elsie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zacariah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zacariah, updated 20 October 2026.