Zackaria
Zackaria was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,872 among boys’ names; 382 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zackaria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zackaria?
#13,872 among boys’ names, 2025
Zackaria fell from #10,608 in 2015 to #13,872 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
20 babies in 2006, the peak
Zackaria peaked in 2006, when 20 boys were given it, #4,668 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,872 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,967 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,808 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,999 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,757 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,331 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,321 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,784 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,608 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,475 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #8,759 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,131 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,486 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,685 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,294 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,478 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,896 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,668 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 17 | #5,026 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,125 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,867 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,713 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,516 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,396 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,644 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,825 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,266 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,969 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,395 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,442 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,147 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,414 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,509 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,808 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,214 | 2.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,282 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zackaria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zackaria has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zackaria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zackaria, and how old are they?
An estimated 375 Americans named Zackaria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Zackaria (6 women and girls, 323 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Zackaria?
Zackaria is a less common spelling of Zakaria: SSA has recorded 382 Zackaria and 3,349 Zakaria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,041 babies since 1880, Zackaria is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 764 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zackaria
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 Zackaria and names like it
- Compare Zackaria and ZakariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZackaria peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Zackaria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zackaria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.