Meaning not yet researched.
Zakaria: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 114 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,263 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,263 in 2017; #1,528 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zakaria in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,528 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,263.
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Zakaria: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 114 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,263 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 145 (2017).
In 2025, 114 US boys were named Zakaria, making it the 1,528th most common boys’ name of the year, down 132 places from #1,396 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 135 boys named Zakaria in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,263, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #1,358 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Zakaria in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,907, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #10,138 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakaria in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 6 babies. In all, 3,349 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,365 babies named Zakaria.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,121 US boys were named Zakaria; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 145. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,983 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zakaria ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #337 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880), Zachariah (31,275 babies since 1880), Zechariah (11,369 babies since 1880) and Zacharias (2,074 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zackariah, Zakariah and Zacariah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Zackariah (1,350), Zakariah (1,007), Zacariah (469), Zakariyya (266), Zakeria (219), Zakariyah (180), Zacaria (161), Zakyria (64), Zakyrie (62), Zacoria (33), Zakoria (17), Sakaria (12), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zakaria in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 18 | #337 | #503 |
| Ohio | 10 | #852 | #986 |
| New York | 15 | #913 | #1,060 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,092 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,110 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,477 | #1,183 |
| California | 8 | #1,995 | #1,868 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 114 | #1,528 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,100 | 135 | #1,396 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,147 | 115 | #1,538 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,619 | 89 | #1,825 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,541 | 93 | #1,749 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,228 | 102 | #1,599 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,456 | 108 | #1,561 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,095 | 113 | #1,520 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,923 | 145 | #1,263 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,097 | 107 | #1,555 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,138 | 129 | #1,358 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,115 | 102 | #1,563 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,738 | 124 | #1,369 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,597 | 95 | #1,636 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,907 | 115 | #1,439 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,592 | 123 | #1,375 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,094 | 107 | #1,544 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,738 | 90 | #1,707 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,727 | 69 | #2,033 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,404 | 83 | #1,712 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,874 | 91 | #1,553 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,549 | 72 | #1,762 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,880 | 65 | #1,843 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,470 | 79 | #1,570 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,833 | 55 | #1,981 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,699 | 47 | #2,174 |
| 1999 | — | — | 49 | #1,994 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,111 | 43 | #2,156 |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,058 | 34 | #2,448 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,501 | 33 | #2,439 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,429 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,949 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,786 | 23 | #3,041 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,233 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,457 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,605 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,161 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,747 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,453 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,521 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,336 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,241 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).