The name Zechariah originated from the Hebrew name Zekharyah, which means ‘Yahweh remembers’. The more common variant in English is Zachary.
Zechariah is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Zechariah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Zechariah ranks 708. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Zechariah. In the entire USA, approximately 8,257 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Zechariah. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The name Zechariah originated from the Hebrew name Zekharyah, which means ‘Yahweh remembers’. The more common variant in English is Zachary.
The spelling with 'e'... is closer to the original Hebrew, but is relatively new in English. In the USA it has been known since the middle of the last century.
Zechariah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Zechariah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #602 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2001. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Zechariah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Zechariah seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zechariah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
226 babies were named Zechariah in 2022 - that's 1 in 714,274 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Zechariah ranked 924 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Zechariah, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to men and boys named Zechariah. (To be fair, 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 entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Zechariah living in one state or another. If your name is Zechariah and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Zechariah relative to the population, you still have to ask 8,943 men and boys their names before you hear Zechariah as an answer just once.
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 nine letters, the name Zechariah is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. 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 Zechariah 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 Zechariah, you can simply say:
Zebra
Elephant
Cat
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zechariah
Zechariah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
H
A
R
I
A
H
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
E
C
H
A
R
I
A
H
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. Zechariah sounds like this:
