Given name · Arabic
زكريا
“Yahweh has remembered”
زكريا (zakariyyā) is a masculine given name from Classical Syriac, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Arabic.
ArabicWritten in Arabic script, read right to left.
Meaning & origin
What it means
زكريا goes back to Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (z'kharyá), meaning “Yahweh has remembered.”
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Where it comes from
زكريا comes from Classical Syriac, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Classical Syriac ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ (z'ḵaryāʾ), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (z'kharyá, “Yahweh has remembered”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
زكريا’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named زكريا
- Zakaria El OuahdiMoroccan soccer playerborn 2001
- Zakaria SamiSaudi Arabian association football playerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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