Given name & surname · also Arabic
Zakariya
“Yahweh has remembered”
Zakariya is a masculine given name from Arabic, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in English and Tausug.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zakariya goes back to Hebrew זְכַרְיָה, meaning “Yahweh has remembered.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Zakariya comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Arabic زَكَرِيَّا, from Classical Syriac ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ (z'ḵaryāʾ), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (“Yahweh has remembered”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zakariya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,558
- 2,511 boys · 47 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 189 babies
- 2025
- 189
- #1,130 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +29%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 189 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,130 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 29.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (29). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,531 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zakariya’s family of names
In English usage, Zakariya shares an earlier linguistic root with Zachary. In English usage, Zakariya shares an earlier linguistic root with Zachariah. In English usage, Zakariya shares an earlier linguistic root with Zechariah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zakariya
- Zakariya al-QazwiniPersian scientist (1203–1283)
- Zakariyya al-AnsariIslamic scholar1420–1520
- Zakariya SouleymaneNigerien association football playerborn 1994
- Zakariya AbarouaiMoroccan and French Footballerborn 1994
- Zakariya Khan Bahadurviceroy of Lahore during the Mughal Empire
- Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-AshiriBahraini journalist1971–2011
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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