# Zakariya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zakariya/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | “yahweh has remembered” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Zakaria, Zakariyya |
| US babies named this | 2,558 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,511 / 47 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,868, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā), from Classical Syriac ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ (z'ḵaryāʾ), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (“Yahweh has remembered”). Doublet of Zachary, Zacharias, Zachariah, Zechariah, and Jakariya.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 13 | 8,023 |
| 2003 | 7 | 13,822 |
| 2005 | 6 | 16,427 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11,230 |
| 2015 | 5 | 19,056 |
| 2016 | 6 | 16,178 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 82 | 1,779 |
| 2012 | 85 | 1,774 |
| 2013 | 101 | 1,562 |
| 2014 | 105 | 1,535 |
| 2015 | 117 | 1,452 |
| 2016 | 110 | 1,531 |
| 2017 | 107 | 1,540 |
| 2018 | 125 | 1,407 |
| 2019 | 115 | 1,492 |
| 2020 | 125 | 1,396 |
| 2021 | 113 | 1,553 |
| 2022 | 143 | 1,321 |
| 2023 | 141 | 1,345 |
| 2024 | 170 | 1,203 |
| 2025 | 189 | 1,130 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 190 | 253 |
| 2012 | 233 | 225 |
| 2013 | 234 | 222 |
| 2014 | 245 | 230 |
| 2015 | 272 | 211 |
| 2016 | 274 | 204 |
| 2017 | 317 | 176 |
| 2018 | 271 | 194 |
| 2019 | 316 | 172 |
| 2020 | 333 | 160 |
| 2021 | 334 | 160 |
| 2022 | 324 | 160 |
| 2023 | 357 | 148 |
| 2024 | 434 | 127 |
| 2025 | 421 | 120 |

## 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.