Zachariah
Meaning
means 'the Lord has remembered'
The story
Zachariah is the King James spelling of Zechariah, "Yahweh remembers," worn in that Bible by a king of Israel, while the prophet and the father of John the Baptist carry the other spelling. For most of the American century it was an heirloom in the attic: 50 boys in the 1920s, 25 in the 1960s. Then the 1970s happened: 1,901, a seventy-six-fold leap in a single decade. The climb held, 4,984 in the 1980s, 7,640 in the 1990s, 6,641 across the 2010s, 3,223 so far this decade. Zach comes standard, the -iah ending files it beside Josiah and Isaiah, and the meaning gives the whole thing its quiet engine: a name that promises remembering, remembered again after two hundred years.
Zachariah's name family
One shared root links 7 names in English.
Shared root: from Hebrew Zekharyah "Yahweh has remembered"
The family
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Zachariah peaked in the 2010s.
When you meet Zachariah
Most people given the name Zachariah in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Zachariah deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Zachariah truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Zachariah fits with your family’s names and surname.
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