# Zakaria (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zakaria/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,349 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,883 / 466 (14% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,261, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | 5,592 |
| 2011 | 60 | 2,907 |
| 2012 | 32 | 4,597 |
| 2013 | 16 | 7,738 |
| 2014 | 11 | 10,115 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10,138 |
| 2016 | 11 | 10,097 |
| 2017 | 11 | 9,923 |
| 2018 | 17 | 7,095 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,456 |
| 2020 | 10 | 10,228 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,541 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7,619 |
| 2023 | 9 | 11,147 |
| 2024 | 9 | 11,100 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 115 | 1,439 |
| 2012 | 95 | 1,636 |
| 2013 | 124 | 1,369 |
| 2014 | 102 | 1,563 |
| 2015 | 129 | 1,358 |
| 2016 | 107 | 1,555 |
| 2017 | 145 | 1,263 |
| 2018 | 113 | 1,520 |
| 2019 | 108 | 1,561 |
| 2020 | 102 | 1,599 |
| 2021 | 93 | 1,749 |
| 2022 | 89 | 1,825 |
| 2023 | 115 | 1,538 |
| 2024 | 135 | 1,396 |
| 2025 | 114 | 1,528 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 98 | 407 |
| 2012 | 92 | 429 |
| 2013 | 87 | 451 |
| 2014 | 99 | 409 |
| 2015 | 102 | 410 |
| 2016 | 81 | 501 |
| 2017 | 96 | 439 |
| 2018 | 87 | 465 |
| 2019 | 87 | 463 |
| 2020 | 75 | 505 |
| 2021 | 87 | 469 |
| 2022 | 69 | 555 |
| 2023 | 80 | 494 |
| 2024 | 96 | 418 |
| 2025 | 74 | 522 |

## People named Zakaria

- Zakaria Aboukhlal, Footballer (born 2000)
- Zakaria Bakkali, Belgian footballer
- Zakaria Labyad, Dutch-born Moroccan footballer (born 1993)
- Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian military officer and politician (1918–2012)
- Zakaria Beglarishvili, Estonian-Georgian association football player (born 1990)
- Zakaria Draoui, Algerian association football player
- Zakaria El Azzouzi, Dutch association football player
- Zakaria Haddouche, Algerian footballer
- Zakaria Eddahchouri, Dutch association football player
- Zakaria Botros, Egyptian Coptic priest
- Zakaria Chichinadze, Georgian literary critic, historian, and publisher (1854–1931)
- Zakaria Asidah, Danish taekwondo practitioner

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.