Given name & surname · also Dutch
Zakharia
“the Lord has remembered”
Zakharia is a masculine given name from Dutch, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Indonesian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zakharia goes back to Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (zəḵaryā), meaning “the Lord has remembered.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Zakharia comes from Dutch, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Dutch Zacharia, from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (zəḵaryā, “the Lord has remembered”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zakharia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 0 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zakharia’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Zakharia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Zachary. In Indonesian usage, Zakharia was borrowed from the Dutch form Zacharia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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