Zechariah

Where Zechariah comes from

From Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (zəḵaryā, “the Lord has remembered”). Doublet of Zach, Zachary, Zachariah, Zacharias, Zakariya, and Jakariya.
— Wiktionary's entry for Zechariah
  • Hebrew
  • 4 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Zechariah Chafee born
    American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian
  2. 1960
    Zechariah Baumel born
    American-Israeli soldier in the Israel Defense Forces
  3. 1971
    First appearance
    #3,963 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2001
    Peak, #635
    295 babies named Zechariah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Zechariah Baumel · American-Israeli soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, 1960–1982
  • Zechariah Chafee · American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian, 1885–1957
  • Zechariah Elefant · Hungarian-American Rabbi, writer and book seller, 1886–1967
  • Zechariah Shem · Vanuatuan cricketer, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.