Zakariya is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “God/Yahweh has remembered.” In 2024 it was given to 169 boys in the United States.
Zakariya at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian · Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“God/Yahweh has remembered”
Also spelled
Zechariah
About the name Zakariya
Zakariya belongs to the Biblical & Christian and Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “God/Yahweh has remembered” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Zechariah.
In the United States, Zakariya first appears in Social Security records in 1989. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1202 in 2024, and in 2024 169 babies received the name — 2,321 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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