Zacarias
Zacarias was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,938 among boys’ names; 1,132 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Zacarias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zacarias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zacarias mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Zacarias is “a male or female given name, equivalent to English Zachary”
From Latin Zacharias, from Koine Greek and Hebrew.
/za.kaˈɾi.ɐs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zacarias?
#2,938 among boys’ names, 2025
Zacarias rose from #3,083 in 2015 to #2,938 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 25.2 per million.
46 babies in 2010, the peak
Zacarias peaked in 2010, when 46 boys were given it, #2,679 among boys’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,938 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,955 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,288 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,612 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,293 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,533 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,192 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,438 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,191 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,882 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,083 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,384 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,260 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,366 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,429 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,679 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,634 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,481 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,587 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,099 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,797 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,999 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,725 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,712 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,964 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,528 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,582 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,863 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,658 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,522 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,394 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,085 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,811 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,856 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,928 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,663 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,600 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,739 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,955 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,876 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,138 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,918 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,227 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,463 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,127 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,150 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,409 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,094 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,745 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,224 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,598 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,628 | 2.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,189 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,313 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,260 | 2.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,779 | 3.7 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,017 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,996 | 5.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,379 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,192 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zacarias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zacarias has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zacarias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zacarias, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,132 Americans ever recorded as Zacarias. The median Zacarias alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,828 people named Zacarias (38 women and girls, 1,790 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 879 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 409 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 454 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zacarias born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,579 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,565 | 1.6× |
Where Zacarias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zacarias is most over-represented in Texas: since 1925 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zacarias with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zacarias
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zacarias and names like it
- Compare Zacarias and YehoshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZacarias peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zacarias since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Zacarias: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Zacarias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zacarias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.