Zakaria
Zakaria was given to 114 boys in 2025, #1,528 among boys’ names; 3,349 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,310 Americans named Zakaria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakaria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zakaria mean?
Wiktionary, Swahili section
Zakaria is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Zachariah or Zechariah” Its etymology gives the sense “the Lord has remembered” (זְכַרְיָה).
Also “a male given name from Arabic”
Borrowed from Arabic زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (zəḵaryā, “the Lord has remembered”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swahili section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zakaria?
#1,528 among boys’ names, 2025
Zakaria fell from #1,358 in 2015 to #1,528 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 67.3 to 66.7 per million.
175 babies in 2011, the peak
Zakaria peaked in 2011, when 175 babies were given it (115 boys, #1,439 among boys’ names). The 114 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 114 | #1,528 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,095 | 135 | #1,396 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,142 | 115 | #1,538 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,614 | 89 | #1,825 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,536 | 93 | #1,749 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,223 | 102 | #1,599 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,451 | 108 | #1,561 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,091 | 113 | #1,520 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,919 | 145 | #1,263 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,093 | 107 | #1,555 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,133 | 129 | #1,358 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,110 | 102 | #1,563 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,734 | 124 | #1,369 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,595 | 95 | #1,635 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,906 | 115 | #1,439 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,590 | 123 | #1,375 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,093 | 107 | #1,543 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,734 | 90 | #1,707 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,723 | 69 | #2,033 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,399 | 83 | #1,712 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,869 | 91 | #1,551 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,545 | 72 | #1,759 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,875 | 65 | #1,840 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,464 | 79 | #1,567 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,828 | 55 | #1,977 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,694 | 47 | #2,170 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 49 | #1,991 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,104 | 43 | #2,153 |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,053 | 34 | #2,444 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,494 | 33 | #2,434 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 20 | #3,423 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 25 | #2,944 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,780 | 23 | #3,035 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 11 | #5,226 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 18 | #3,451 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 17 | #3,599 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 10 | #5,154 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,741 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,446 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,515 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,332 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,239 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zakaria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,349 Americans recorded as Zakaria, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 114 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zakaria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakaria, and how old are they?
3,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,349 Americans ever recorded as Zakaria. The median Zakaria alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,456 people named Zakaria (326 women and girls, 3,130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
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 Zakaria born?
The states with the most babies named Zakaria are Minnesota, New York and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 18 | #337 | 4.3× |
| New York | 15 | #913 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 10 | #852 | 0.9× |
| California | 8 | #1,995 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,092 | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,110 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,477 | 0.7× |
Where Zakaria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakaria is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1980 it was given 4.3 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 Zakaria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,141 babies since 1880, Zakaria is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 114 of their 671 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
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 Zakaria
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 Zakaria and names like it
- Compare Zakaria and ZakaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZakaria peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakaria since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zakaria: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Zakaria.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zakaria alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.