Zachariasz
A Hebrew name meaning "Yahweh remembers." It stays rare in Poland: only around 600 men carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Zachariasz Pronunciation
Zachariasz is pronounced zah-KHAHR-yahsh (/zaˈxarjaʂ/).
What Zachariasz means
Where Zachariasz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Zachariasz comes from Hebrew, where it means "Yahweh remembers." Its Polish gloss, jahwe pamięta, keeps that sense unchanged. Long before it reached Poland the name belonged to prophets and priests. In the Hebrew Bible, Zechariah is both a prophet and the priest father of John the Baptist, a man promised a son when he no longer expected one.
Polish took the name and let it fill its own vowels. Alongside the full Zachariasz sits the shorter variant Zachar, quicker to write on a school register.
The meaning reads as a claim about God rather than a wish for the child: the divine remembers. That older theology travels with the name whether or not anyone notices it. Its main name-day falls on 23 September. Somewhere a boy prints Zachariasz on a form at the urząd, the Hebrew still at its root.
When Zachariasz celebrates name day
Zachariasz appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Zachariasz
1 in 34485 men in Poland is named Zachariasz. 619 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1198 among male names.
Zachariasz's popularity over time
10 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #722 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2006.
Where parents choose Zachariasz
Zachariasz is most popular in Pomeranian, 131% above the national average (14 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+103%) and West Pomeranian (+73%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Warmian-Masurian, 56% and 32% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian
+131%1 in 10,523 babies
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Greater Poland
+103%1 in 11,958 babies
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West Pomeranian
+73%1 in 14,071 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−56%1 in 54,690 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−32%1 in 35,897 babies
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Lublin
−29%1 in 34,225 babies
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Pomeranian+131% 14 born1 in 10,523 babies+131%
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Greater Poland+103% 18 born1 in 11,958 babies+103%
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West Pomeranian+73% 6 born1 in 14,071 babies+73%
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Masovian+44% 21 born1 in 16,870 babies+44%
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Opole+5% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies+5%
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Silesian−4% 9 born1 in 25,287 babies−4%
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Lower Silesian−23% 5 born1 in 31,427 babies−23%
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Lesser Poland−25% 7 born1 in 32,417 babies−25%
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Lublin−29% 3 born1 in 34,225 babies−29%
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Warmian-Masurian−32% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies−32%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−56% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies−56%
Zachariasz as a middle name
Zachariasz is a first name for 619 men in Poland and a middle name for another 426, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 342nd, between Wolfgang (426) and Johann (425).
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#340 Benon426
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#341 Wolfgang426
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#342 Zachariasz426
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#343 Johann425
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#344 Radomir425