Zacharías

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zacharías is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”). Compare Zachariah and Zechariah.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 87K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 91K
  • CZCzechia1 in 39K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,805 people, 2010

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zacharias in BR Brazil, US United States, IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”). Compare Zachariah and Zechariah.

Sources 5

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zacharías counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Zacharías is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,8051 in 87K3.8KZacharias93
BR Brazil2,3191 in 91K2.3KZacharias99
IN India3651 in 3.6M365Zacharias13
CZ Czechia2711 in 39K271——
PL Poland751 in 510K39——
CH Switzerland491 in 172K49—3
SK Slovakia251 in 218K25——

3,805 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zacharías is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Greece, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Greek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Zacharias, Ζαχαριας, Ζαχαρίας, Ζαχαριάς, Zechariah

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Zacharias Rhetor, b. 465Zacharias Calliergi, b. 1473Zacharias Papantoniou, b. 1877Zacharias Stellas, b. 1931Zacharias Chaliabalias, b. 1946Zacharias Koulias, b. 1950Iōannēs Z. Tziphopulōs, b. 1960Zacharias Charalambous, b. 1971Zacharias Kavousakis, b. 1989Zacharias Theodorou, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zacharías under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zacharías mean, and where does it come from?
From Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías), the New Testament form of the figure's name in the Old Testament, Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”). Compare Zachariah and Zechariah. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
In which country does Zacharías have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Zacharías, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zacharias.
Where is Zacharías most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zacharías is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zacharías?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,805 people named Zacharías in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zacharías”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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