girls:
47 births since 2000
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1989
#2714 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1989
#5593 (28th percentile)
The name Zakariya is the #5,593 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,199 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 27.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,714 (40.8% percentile) for all time with 2,152 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 2000.
Zakariya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 2000 for girls).
The name Zakariya has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zakariya reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #786) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 77 births per million (ranked 14.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1994, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zakariya is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #775 (14.9% percentile) with 77 births per million.
For girls, Zakariya reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #889) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zakariya".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Zakariya", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 23 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Zachariah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Zachariah..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Zakariya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.0% confident that Zakariya is pronounced as zuh-KAH-ree-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zah-kah-REE-uh, at 20.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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