Zacharia is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Zacharia in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Zacharia in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Zacharia by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Zacharia ranks at #4,020. That means there are 4,019 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 Zacharia.
In fact, the name Zacharia hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Zacharia wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1989, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,354, 54 parents chose it in 1989 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zacharia, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zacharia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Zacharia a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 6,627, for a total of 10 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Zacharia seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of having a man or boy named Zacharia in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Zacharia is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan or Missouri. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Zacharia live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 155,540 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Zacharia.
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 Zacharia 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.
If your name is Zacharia 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zacharia, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Cat
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zacharia
Zacharia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
C
H
A
R
I
A
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
H
A
R
I
A
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. Zacharia sounds like this:
