Zakaria
Zakaria reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 1,256, and has been recorded 3,349 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,520th. About 3,300 Zakarias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zakaria boys named Zakaria
Girls and boys called Zakaria
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 466 girls and 2,883 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 114.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 32 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,349
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 1,256th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,520th
- First recorded
- 1980
- Girls / boys
- 466 / 2,883
How old the living Zakarias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,349 babies given the name since 1980, about 3,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Zakarias
- Zakaria Aboukhlal (born 2000)Footballer
- Zakaria Bakkali (born 1996)Belgian footballer
- Zakaria Paliashvili (1871–1933)Georgian composer
- Zakaria Labyad (born 1993)Dutch-born Moroccan footballer
- Zakaria El Ouahdi (born 2001)Moroccan soccer player
- Zakaria Tamer (born 1931)Syrian Writer of Short stories, Newspaper Columnist, Newspaper Editor
- Zakaria Mohieddin (1918–2012)Egyptian military officer and politician
- Zakaria Chihab (1926–1984)Olympic wrestler
People named Zakaria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zakaria is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zakaria is most concentrated in Minnesota (8.5×), New York (2.1×), Michigan (1.7×), Virginia (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Zakaria peaked:
Zakaria elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Zakaria +1 spelling | 14,790 | 121st |
| Italy boys | Zakaria | 3,381 | — |
| Belgium boys | Zakaria | 2,742 | 104th |
| England and Wales boys | Zakaria | 2,261 | 410th |
| Norway boys | Zakaria | 378 | 276th |
| Switzerland boys | Zakaria | 193 | 422nd |
| Ireland boys | Zakaria | 51 | 540th |
| Scotland boys | Zakaria | 43 | 442nd |
| Poland boys | Zakaria | 16 birth registrations | 448th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Zakaria | 3 | 421st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zakaria: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Zakaria | 75 | 0.006% | 570th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Zakaria | 117 | 0.027% | 172nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Zakaria | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Zakaria is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.05% of children were given it – 48 of them.
Zakaria: rank by region
In 2025, Zakaria was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Zakaria | 210 | 28 |
| Wallonia | Zakaria | 206 | 14 |
| Brussels | Zakaria | 48 | 19 |
In 2020, Zakaria was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Zakaria | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zakaria appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (48th), Province of Antwerp (127th), Province of Hainaut (131st), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd) and Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Zakaria by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Zakaria among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Zakaria | 2,153 | 2,213 |
| Finland boys | Zakaria | 169 | 224 |
| Finland girls | Zakaria | — | 10 |
| the Netherlands girls | Zakaria | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Zakaria lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 6,662 men called Zakaria were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Zakaria | 109 | 2.490 | 83 |
| Ceuta | Zakaria | 55 | 1.305 | 137 |
| Almería | Zakaria | 388 | 0.986 | 140 |
| Murcia | Zakaria | 592 | 0.745 | 155 |
| Girona | Zakaria | 299 | 0.718 | 181 |
| Tarragona | Zakaria | 288 | 0.657 | 202 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Zakaria against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.