Zacharias
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of Zechariah
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌzækɝˈaɪəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zacharias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- GRGreece≈1 in 52K
- USUnited States1 in 87K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
3,805 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ζαχαριας in GR Greece.
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)
Alternative form of Zechariah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zacharias is read(measured from records)
Zacharias is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
Alternative form of Zechariah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Old Testament book; pope; pers.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zacharias in Portuguese.
- German12%
Zacharias (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
von Rufname Zacharias; patronymischer Familienname
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
männl. Vom. (griechische Form von hebr. zecharyäh »Jahwe hat sich erin nert«). Nach dem Neuen Testament war
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zacharias 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 | — | 3,805 | 1 in 87K | 7.2K | Zacharias | 296 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,319 | 1 in 91K | 2.3K | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 2 | Zacharias | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 3 | Zacharias | 80 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Zacharias | 15 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 44 | Ζαχαριας | 80 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 80 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 685 | Zacharias | 6 |
| BZ Belize | #331 | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Zacharias | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Zacharias is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
God remembered; Greece, Rio de Janeiro
as a nameDicionario 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georg Zachariasb. 1884DEGerman swimmer (1884–1953)
- Jerrold R. Zachariasb. 1905USAmerican physicist (1905–1986)
- Helmut Zachariasb. 1920DEGerman violinist (1920–2002)
- Steffen Zachariasb. 1927DEGerman actor (1927–1989)
- Gun Zachariasb. 1927SESwedish writer (1927-2012)
- Ravi Zachariasb. 1946USCanadian-American Christian apologist (1946–2020)
- Christian Zachariasb. 1950DEGerman pianist and conductor
- Ann Zachariasb. 1956SEactress
- Stephan Zachariasb. 1956DEGerman composer
- Sascha Zachariasb. 1979SEactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,720 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,045 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,267 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Zacharias have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Zacharias, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zacharias.
- What does the name Zacharias mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Zechariah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Zacharias?
- In the etymology graph, Zacarias, Zahari and Zaccaria are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zacharias?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌzækɝˈaɪəs/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Zacharias?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,805 people named Zacharias in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Zacharias compared with other names?
- In Belize, Zacharias is the 331st most common surname of 11,408 surnames 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/zachariasThe 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, “Zacharias” — the 331st most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.