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The first name 
Zacariah

Zacariah is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.

Zacariah – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Zacariah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Zacariah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Zacariah by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Zacariah ranks at #6,347. That means there are 6,346 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zacariah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zacariah

Zacariah -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Zacariah. Boys named Zacariah have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,683 Zacariah ranked higher than ever before in 1979. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Zacariah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1990. In general, parents name their sons Zacariah only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Zacariah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Zacariah in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Zacariah continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Zacariah that year, ranking #6,627 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Zacariah, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Zacariah -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Zacariah is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Zacariah can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Zacariah. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Zacariah living in one state or another. (If your name is Zacariah and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Zacariah is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00006% of all male residents are called Zacariah – that’s just one in 1,740,812! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 7 men going by that name. So, if your name is Zacariah, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Zacariah has 8 letters 
and begins with a Z

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With eight letters, the name Zacariah is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.

Other names with 
Z, a, c, a, r, i, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Zacariah – Z, a, c, a, r, i, a and h – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Zacharia.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zacariah

If your name is Zacariah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Zacariah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zacariah, you can simply say:

Zebra

Apple

Cat

Apple

Rocket

Igloo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Zacariah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zacariah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zacariah

Zacariah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zacariah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zacariah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
A
C
A
R
I
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Zacariah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Z
A
C
A
R
I
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zacariah sounds like this: