Meaning and history
Zechariah comes from the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zeḵarya), meaning “Yahweh remembers,” from זָכַר (zaḵar), “to remember,” and יָהּ (yah), the Hebrew God. It is borne by many figures in the Old Testament, including the prophet and author of the Book of Zechariah, and also appears in the New Testament as the name of John the Baptist’s father, who was temporarily struck dumb for his disbelief and is venerated as a saint by Christians. In some New Testament versions, the name appears in the Greek form Zacharias or the English form Zachary, and as an English given name, Zechariah has been used occasionally since the Protestant Reformation.
20062006: 337 births, rank #674
2007: 364 births, rank #658
2008: 369 births, rank #658
2009: 344 births, rank #700
2010: 369 births, rank #653
20112011: 325 births, rank #705
2012: 364 births, rank #654
2013: 360 births, rank #669
2014: 385 births, rank #666
2015: 394 births, rank #656
20162016: 327 births, rank #744
2017: 323 births, rank #736
2018: 308 births, rank #763
2019: 279 births, rank #815
2020: 241 births, rank #924
20212021: 251 births, rank #913
2022: 229 births, rank #982
2023: 254 births, rank #911
2024: 263 births, rank #899
20252025: 285 births, rank #855
Zechariah rose from #900 to #856 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2015, with 394 births.