Zakaria
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zakaria is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet.
- MAMorocco1 in 287◐
- USUnited States1 in 765
- TNTunisia1 in 946
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈462K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 528 ●
- 1 in 765 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
1.8M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zachary in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 7 more, Jakaria in BD Bangladesh, Zaqaria in GE Georgia and Jakariya in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #308 | 434,625 | 1.5M rec. | 1 in 765 | 435K | Zachary | 528 |
| BD Bangladesh | #621 | 85,196 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Jakaria | 77 |
| AU Australia | #293 | 72,717 | 30K rec. | — | 175 | Zachary | 189 |
| MA Morocco | #13 | 53,478 | 38K rec. | — | — | Zakaria | 126 |
| CA Canada | #257 | 53,244 | 16K rec. | — | 44 | Zachary | 208 |
| MY Malaysia | #97 | 34,035 | 69K rec. | — | 1.4K | Zakaria | 106 |
| GB United Kingdom | #659 | 28,213 | 24K rec. | — | 760 | Zachary | 171 |
| FR France | — | 14,285△ | 30 rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 14K | Zakaria | 7 |
| SY Syria | #358 | 10,671 | 13K rec. | — | — | Zakaria | 31 |
| IN India | — | 8,498 | 6.3K rec. | — | 365 | Jakariya | 52 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,662 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 7.5K | 6.7K | Zakaria | 68 |
| KE Kenya | #439 | 6,598 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Zakaria | 36 |
Roughly 435K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 765). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French107K32%
- Arabic62K19%
- English25K8%
- Indonesian23K7%
- Swahili22K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 107,141 | 32% |
| Arabic | 62,324 | 19% |
| English | 25,250 | 8% |
| Indonesian | 23,153 | 7% |
| Swahili | 21,643 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Zakaria is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Zachariah or Zechariah
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, (zakariyaa): a Prophet, the biblical Zachariah and
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Zacharias
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 17 |
| 1991 | 18 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 23 |
| 1994 | 25 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 33 |
| 1997 | 34 |
| 1998 | 43 |
| 1999 | 49 |
| 2000 | 47 |
| 2001 | 55 |
| 2002 | 79 |
| 2003 | 65 |
| 2004 | 72 |
| 2005 | 91 |
| 2006 | 83 |
| 2007 | 69 |
| 2008 | 90 |
| 2009 | 107 |
| 2010 | 123 |
| 2011 | 115 |
| 2012 | 95 |
| 2013 | 124 |
| 2014 | 102 |
| 2015 | 129 |
| 2016 | 107 |
| 2017 | 145 |
| 2018 | 113 |
| 2019 | 108 |
| 2020 | 102 |
| 2021 | 93 |
| 2022 | 89 |
| 2023 | 115 |
| 2024 | 135 |
| 2025 | 114 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 81 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 14K | #126 |
| 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 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2.2K | #1,312 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,111 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2022 | 1.6K | #7 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,342 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,137 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 915 | #26,630 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 474 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zakaria?
- We estimate roughly 462 thousand people bear Zakaria (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zakaria have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 435 thousand people bear Zakaria in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zachary.
- How common is Zakaria compared with other names?
- In the United States, Zakaria is the 308th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Zakaria mean?
- Recorded meaning: Arabic form of Zechariah, the Qur'anic prophet.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 308th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.