Zakariya
Zakariya was given to 189 boys in 2025, #1,130 among boys’ names; 2,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,530 Americans named Zakariya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakariya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zakariya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zakariya is “a male given name from Arabic” Its etymology gives the sense “Yahweh has remembered” (זְכַרְיָה).
From Arabic زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā), from Classical Syriac ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ (z'ḵaryāʾ), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (“Yahweh has remembered”). Doublet of Zachary, Zacharias, Zachariah, Zechariah, and Jakariya.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zakariya?
#1,130 among boys’ names, 2025
Zakariya rose from #1,452 in 2015 to #1,130 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
189 babies in 2025, the peak
Zakariya peaked in 2025, when 189 boys were given it, #1,130 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 170 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 189 | #1,130 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,203 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 141 | #1,345 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,321 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,553 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,396 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,492 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 125 | #1,407 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,540 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,531 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,452 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,535 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,562 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 85 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 82 | #1,778 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 72 | #1,955 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,324 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 75 | #1,911 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,395 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,357 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 42 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,038 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,017 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,423 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,274 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,591 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,236 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,177 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,754 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,858 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,603 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakariya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,558 Americans recorded as Zakariya, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 189 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 Zakariya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakariya, and how old are they?
2,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,558 Americans ever recorded as Zakariya. The median Zakariya alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,531 people named Zakariya (62 women and girls, 1,469 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 793 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
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 Zakariya born?
The states with the most babies named Zakariya are New York, Texas and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 29 | #561 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,132 | 0.5× |
| California | 17 | #1,196 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 15 | #570 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | #803 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 11 | #668 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #653 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #639 | 4.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,014 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,623 | 0.3× |
Where Zakariya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakariya is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1989 it was given 4.6 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 Zakariya 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 16,136 babies since 1880, Zakariya is the fourth most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 189 of their 593 babies (32%), the second 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 Zakariya
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 Zakariya and names like it
- Compare Zakariya and ZakaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZakariya peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakariya since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zakariya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zakariya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zakariya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.