Zacarías

Locally spelled Zacarias in AR Argentina, VE Venezuela, US United States and 4 more.

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.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Zacarías is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, Peru

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Zacarias, Zacaríaś, Z̸a̸c̸A̸r̸i̸a̸s̸, Zacariàs, Zacarìas

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Zacarias

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Zacarias

• Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

  Also written Zacarias

• Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, Philippines, Peru

  Also written Zacarias

• Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Spain

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Zacarias

• Russian surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Peru

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Zacarias, Закариас, Zakarias, Zakariás

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Zacarías is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, Hebreo Zejaryah, ‘Yahvé se acordó’ o ‘recuerdo de Yahvé’.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Toledo, Buenos Aires

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Zacarías González Velázquezb. 1763ESSpanish painter (1763-1834)
• Zacarías Martínez Núñezb. 1864ESSpanish bishop (1864-1933)
• Zacarias of Saint Teresab. 1887ESSpanish missionary (1887-1957)
• Zacarías Salmerónb. 1919MXMexican musician
• Zacarías Ortiz Rolónb. 1934PYParaguayan Roman Catholic bishop (1934–2020)
• Zacarías Reyánb. 1948COColombian writer
• Zacarías M. de la Rivab. 1972ESSpanish composer
• Zacarías Bonnatb. 1996DODominican weightlifter
• Zacarías Lópezb. 1998CLChilean footballer
• Zacarías Martínez GonzálezESSpanish politician

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).

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

What are other forms of the name Zacarías?

In the etymology graph, Zachary, Zach and Zekeriya are forms of the same name in other languages.

What does the name Zacarías mean, and where does it come from?

Zechariah (the book of the Bible) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Zacarías a male or female name?

Zacarías is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Zacarías have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Zacarías in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zacarias.

How common is the name Zacarías?

In Argentina, the national register counted 9,941 people named Zacarías, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.

How common is Zacarías compared with other names?

In Mozambique, Zacarías is the 18th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.