Zakaria
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zakaria is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 15th most common given name. In Arabic, recorded as Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 328(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.5K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zakaria itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #768 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 589 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 328 (inferred from the name graph)
435,262 named Zachary, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zachary in US United States, Zaqaria in GE Georgia and Jakaria in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zakaria is read(measured from records)
Zakaria is one spelling over 5 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.
- French28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zakaria in French.
- Arabic26%
Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
(zakariyaa): a Prophet, the biblical Zachariah and
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Zacharias
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Indonesian14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zakaria in Indonesian.
- English7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zakaria in English.
- Swahili6.4%
a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Zachariah or Zechariah
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Zakaria 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 | #307 | 435,262as Zachary | 1 in 764 | 435K | Zachary | 589 |
| MA Morocco | #15 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | — | Zakaria | 138 |
| BD Bangladesh | #507 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Jakaria | 81 |
| DZ Algeria | #90 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Zakaria | 86 |
| TZ Tanzania | #221 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Zakaria | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,662 | 1 in 7.5K | 6.7K | Zakaria | 66 |
| GE Georgia | #215 | 2,998as ზაქარია | 1 in 1.3K | 3K | Zaqaria | 19 |
435,262 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Zakaria 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 Hawaiian, Zachariah (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌶𐌰𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Zakaria Paliashvilib. 1871GEGeorgian composer (1871–1933)
- Zakariyya Ahmadb. 1896EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian musician and composer (1896–1961)
- Zakaria Mohieddinb. 1918EGEgyptian military officer and politician (1918–2012)
- Zakaria Tamerb. 1931SYSyrian Writer of Short stories, Newspaper Columnist, Newspaper Editor
- Zakaria El Masbahib. 1979MAMoroccan basketball player (born 1979)
- Zakaria Ramdaneb. 1980DZAlgerian actor
- Zakaria Labyadb. 1993NLDutch-born Moroccan footballer
- Zakaria Bakkalib. 1996BEBelgian footballer
- Salah Zakariab. 1999QAQatari footballer
- Zakaria Aboukhlalb. 2000NLFootballer (born 2000)
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 85 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.7K | #731 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.1K | #397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 326 | #5,089 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 114 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Zakaria mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Zakaria a male or female name?
- Zakaria 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 Zakaria have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 435 thousand people named Zachary, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Zakaria?
- In the etymology graph, Zachary, Zekeriya and Zachery are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zakaria?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,662 people named Zakaria, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Zakaria compared with other names?
- In the United States, Zakaria is the 307th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zakariaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zakaria” — the 307th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.