Given name & surname · also Latin
Sakarias
“Yahweh has remembered”
Sakarias is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Swedish, Finnish, and Faroese.
Original LatinZacharias
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sakarias goes back to Biblical Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā), meaning “Yahweh has remembered.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Sakarias comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Sakarias developed from Zacharias.
Sakarias’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Sakarias has a short form in Sakari. In Finnish usage, Sakarias developed from the Latin form Zacharias. In Swedish usage, Sakarias has a conventional equivalent in the English form Zachary.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sakarias has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Sakarias comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sakarias
- Zechariahbiblical prophet550 BC–449 BC
- Zechariah of Israelking of the Kingdom of Israel; son of Jeroboam II800 BC–751 BC
- Sakarias Koller LølandNorwegian cyclistborn 2001
- Sakarias OpsahlNorwegian footballerborn 1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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