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Zakaria name meaning

“God remembers”

Letters
7
Syllables
4
First letter
Z
Origin
Arabic · Hebrew
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1950s: 8.7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s6.8%
1950s8.7%
1960s7.5%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
42

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Zakaria

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: ZMeaning faithArabic origin

Zakaria is a male name from Hebrew meaning 'God remembers'.

What does Zakaria mean?

God remembers

In Malay: Tuhan mengingati

#Faith

Sources (1)

About the name Zakaria

Zakaria is the Arabic form Zakariyyā of the Hebrew name Zekharyah, combining zakhar 'to remember' with yah, a name of God. It is the name of a prophet in the Quran. According to JPN it peaked in the 1960s with 4,047 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic, Hebrew
SyllablesZa-ka-ri-a
First letterMalay Names starting with Z
Arabic scriptزكريا

Zakaria in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 1,385 · 6.8%
1950s
Boy: 3,813 · 8.7%
1960s
Boy: 4,047 · 7.5%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Zakaria as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Zakaria

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Zechariah · behindthename.com · meaning

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