Zechariah
- Pronunciation
- [Ze-cha-ri-ah]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Jehovah Has Remembered.
- Origin
- Hebrew
About the Name Zechariah
Zechariah is a Hebrew name meaning "Yahweh has remembered," a phrase of faith, comfort, and reassurance. Borne in the Bible by a prophet and by several other figures, it has a rich scriptural heritage, and its full four-syllable form carries an impressive, dignified weight that sets it clearly apart from its shorter and more common cousins, giving it a stately, reverent presence.
The name connects to a wide family of related forms, and recorded variants include Zacharia, Zacharie, and the very familiar Zachary, ranging from the elaborate and traditional to the everyday and modern. This generous spread lets parents choose between the grand, full Zechariah and a more streamlined contemporary spelling, all while keeping the same meaningful biblical root and its message of divine remembrance.
As a boys' name, Zechariah first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and reached its peak in 2001 at rank #636, with roughly 7,900 boys given the name across its top-1000 years. It remained in the rankings as recently as 2024 at #900, marking Zechariah as a stately, scripture-rooted classic that has held a quiet, steady presence across more than two decades. Grand yet warm, the name offers parents a name of real biblical depth that still feels distinctive beside the more common Zachary.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Zechariah
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Zechariah by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2015 with 394 boys named Zechariah (boy rank #657 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #856 for boys (285 US births). That's 199 places below its 2015 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Zechariah Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Zechariah the strongest states are Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arkansas | #470 | 22 |
| 2 | Mississippi | #591 | 27 |
| 3 | Kentucky | #609 | 20 |
| 4 | North Carolina | #703 | 90 |
| 5 | Florida | #705 | 201 |
| 6 | Texas | #706 | 345 |
| 7 | Alabama | #709 | 48 |
| 8 | Georgia | #717 | 106 |
| 9 | Tennessee | #722 | 73 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #724 | 17 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois | #1,031 | 28 |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | #932 | 35 |
| 3 | New York | #926 | 57 |
| 4 | New Jersey | #858 | 44 |
| 5 | Michigan | #842 | 44 |
| 6 | Virginia | #838 | 65 |
| 7 | Colorado | #822 | 37 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #818 | 17 |
| 9 | Ohio | #808 | 68 |
| 10 | Missouri | #804 | 26 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Zechariah in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Zechariah to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Zechariah against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).