Zachariah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: biblical Zachariah; equivalent of Zakariyya
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zachariah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 21K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
20,718 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
biblical Zachariah; equivalent of Zakariyya
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zachariah 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,718 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Zachariah | 369 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Zachariah | 42 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Zachariah | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Zachariah | 20 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 5 | Zachariah | 84 |
| CU Cuba | #763 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Zachariah | 2 |
20,718 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the wgnd-ng-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zachariah the Recluseb. 301Egyptian Christian monk who lived during the 4th century in Scetis, Lower Egypt
- Zachariah Lokb. 1561GBEnglish politician
- Zachariah Chandlerb. 1813USAmerican politician (1813–1879)
- Zachariah Adam Hallb. 1865CACanadian politician
- Zachariah Keodirelang Matthewsb. 1901ZABamangwato academic in South Africa (1901-1968)
- Tom Glazerb. 1914USnot in their usual nameAmerican folk singer and songwriter (1914-2003)
- Zach Helmb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director
- Zachariah Selwynb. 1975USAmerican singer-songwriter, actor, host, and writer
- Zachariah Simukondab. 1983ZMZambian football player
- Zackb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican Twitch streamer and YouTuber
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21K | #1,569 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 558 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 71 | #1,569 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2015 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 2 | — |
| NG Nigeria | WGND 2.0 — Nigeria given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Zachariah?
- In the etymology graph, Zachary, Zach and Zekeriya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Zachariah mean, and where does it come from?
- biblical Zachariah; equivalent of Zakariyya Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Zachariah a male or female name?
- Zachariah 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 Zachariah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Zachariah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zachariah.
- How common is the name Zachariah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,718 people named Zachariah in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Zachariah compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Zachariah is the 763rd most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zachariahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Zachariah” — the 763rd most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.