Zacarias
A name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord remembers" or "God remembers".
Name Census estimates that about 1,039 living Americans carry the first name Zacarias. The name is used almost exclusively for boys. The average person named Zacarias today is around 20 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Zacarias births was 2010 (46 babies).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Zacarias. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
For a British comparison, Name Census UK has a UK baby-name profile for Zacarias with official rankings and popularity over time.
People living today
1.0K
~ 1 in 329,889 Americans
Peak year
2010
46 babies that year
Average age
20
years old
2024 SSA rank
#2,941
Tracked since 1925
Census
Zacarias in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census recorded 1,831 people with the first name Zacarias, which placed it at #8,042 in the published first-name tables. This is a snapshot of people who already had the name at the time of the Census.
The SSA sections elsewhere on this page answer a different question: how often parents gave the name to babies over time. The "people living today" figure on this page is different again: it is a current estimate built from SSA birth records and age-based survival rates, so the two numbers are not expected to match exactly.
2020 Census rank
#8,042
National first-name rank
People counted
1.8K
1,831 in the published race/origin table
Per 100,000
0.6
People with this name in 2020
Largest reported group
Hispanic or Latino
84.4% of people with this name
Demographics
Ancestry and ethnicity for Zacarias
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Zacarias is Hispanic at 84.4%. The next largest groups are Asian/Pacific Islander (5.8%) and White (4.8%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself.
The bar chart below shows how people with the first name Zacarias described their own race and ethnicity on the 2020 Census form. The Census Bureau groups responses into six broad categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Two or More Races. When a category has too few respondents for a given name, the Bureau suppresses the figure to protect individual privacy, which is why some names show fewer than six slices.
Percentages are shown so the breakdown is easy to read across every published category. Because the 2020 Census first-name file also includes raw headcounts for each group, Name Census can show those alongside the percentages in the legend and hover tooltip.
Keep in mind that these are self-reported numbers. A first name does not determine a person's race or ethnicity, and the distribution you see here reflects the specific population who happened to carry the name Zacarias at the time of the 2020 Census, not any inherent property of the name itself.
- Hispanic or Latino84.4% · 1,546
- Asian and Pacific Islander5.8% · 107
- White4.8% · 87
- Black or African American3.6% · 66
- Two or more races1.0% · 18
- American Indian and Alaska Native0.4% · 7
Popularity
Zacarias: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Zacarias from the 1920s through to the 2020s, spanning 11 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 2010s, with 355 total registrations. Although the numbers have come down from the 2010s peak, Zacarias remains solidly in use and shows no sign of disappearing from maternity wards.
Babies born per year
Decades
Zacarias by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Zacarias during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Geography
Where Zacarias' live
The SSA's state-level files cover 5 states and territories. Texas, California, Florida recorded the most babies named Zacarias, while Maryland, Arizona, Florida recorded the fewest. The average across all reporting states is about 68 registrations each.
Origin
Meaning and history of Zacarias
Zacarias is a male given name with origins tracing back to ancient Hebrew. It is a variant of the name Zechariah, derived from the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah), meaning "Yahweh remembers" or "the Lord has remembered." The name is composed of the Hebrew elements zākhar, meaning "to remember," and Yah, a shortened form of the name of the Hebrew God, Yahweh.
The name Zechariah appears in the Old Testament of the Bible as the name of several individuals, including a prophet who lived during the 6th century BC and was one of the last prophets of the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Zechariah, which bears his name, is included in the section of the Bible known as the Twelve Minor Prophets.
One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Zacarias can be found in the New Testament of the Bible, where it refers to the father of John the Baptist. According to the Gospel of Luke, Zechariah (spelled "Zacharias" in some translations) was a priest who was visited by the angel Gabriel and told that his wife, Elizabeth, would bear a son who would become a great prophet.
Throughout history, several notable figures have borne the name Zacarias or its variants. One of the earliest was Zacharias of Mytilene, a Greek scholar and church historian who lived in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. Another prominent figure was Zacharias Ursinus (1534-1583), a German Protestant theologian and one of the authors of the Heidelberg Catechism.
In the 17th century, Zacharias Janssen (c. 1585-c. 1638) was a Dutch spectacle maker credited with the invention of the first compound microscope. Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898) was a Finnish author, journalist, and historian who wrote extensively about Finnish culture and history.
More recently, Zacharias Kunuk (born 1957) is an Inuit Canadian filmmaker and one of the founders of Igloolik Isuma Productions, known for films that explore Inuit culture and traditions.
These examples illustrate the long-standing use of the name Zacarias across various cultures and time periods, reflecting its biblical origins and enduring significance as a given name.
People
Zacarias + last name combinations
How many people share a full name with Zacarias as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Related
Other names starting with Z
Other first names starting with Z with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Zacarias: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Zacarias?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 1,039 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Zacarias going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 329,889 US residents.
Is Zacarias a common name?
We classify Zacarias as "Rare". It ranks above 90.3% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 1,089 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Zacarias most popular?
The single biggest year for Zacarias was 2010, when 46 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Zacarias is about 20 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
How common was Zacarias in the 2020 Census?
The published 2020 Census first-name tables recorded 1,831 people with the name Zacarias, or 0.61 per 100,000 residents. That placed it at #8,042 in the national Census ranking for first names.
Why is the Census count different from the living estimate?
Because they measure different things. The Census figure is a count of people who had the name Zacarias in 2020. The living estimate aims to answer a current question instead: how many people with the name are alive today, based on SSA birth records and age-based survival rates. Since one number is a 2020 snapshot and the other is a present-day estimate, they are not expected to be identical.
What does the Census say about the gender split for Zacarias?
In the 2020 Census sex table, Zacarias leans strongly male. 1,790 people counted with this name were male (97.9%), compared with 38 female bearers (2.1%). The Census view is a snapshot of people living with the name in 2020, while the SSA section above tracks births across time.
What does the Census say about the background of people named Zacarias?
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Zacarias is Hispanic at 84.4%. The next largest groups are Asian/Pacific Islander (5.8%) and White (4.8%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself. The percentages in the chart above come from self-reported race and Hispanic-origin responses in the 2020 Census.
Which group reports the name Zacarias most often in the Census?
Hispanic is the largest reported group for people named Zacarias in the 2020 Census, accounting for 84.4% (1,546 people in the published table).
Why can the Census sex total and race total differ slightly?
The Census Bureau published separate 2020 tables for sex and for race/Hispanic origin, and the released figures can differ slightly because of privacy protection in the public files. That is why this page treats the gender section and the race/origin section as two related snapshots instead of forcing them into one identical total.
Does every first name have Census demographic data?
No. The public Census first-name release only includes names that met the Bureau's publication rules, so many rarer names in the SSA files have no Census demographic snapshot. When that happens, the SSA trend, gender history, and state sections still appear, but the 2020 Census demographic sections are omitted.
What does the SSA popularity chart show?
The chart tracks births, not the number of people alive with the name today. Each point shows how many babies were given the name Zacarias in that year. That makes it useful for spotting when the name rose, peaked, or faded.
Is Zacarias a male name?
Yes, 100.0% of people registered as Zacarias in the SSA data are male. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Is Zacarias still being used today?
Yes. The SSA still recorded Zacarias in 2024, and the page above shows its latest-year rank where available. A name can be well past its peak and still remain in steady use, especially if it built up a large population over earlier decades.
Why can a name have a lot of living bearers even if it is not trendy now?
Because living-bearer counts and current baby-name popularity measure different things. A name like Zacarias can build up a very large population over many decades, even if fewer parents are choosing it now than they did at its peak.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.
How common is the name Zacarias?
For a quick modern estimate, our sister site HowManyOfMe.org answers that in one glance, with the living-bearer count front and centre.