Zakaria
Hebrew at the root, from a name meaning "God has remembered," but it reaches Poland through the Arabic form Zakariyya. Fewer than 250 men here carry it, all of them male, so most Poles will never meet one.
Zakaria Pronunciation
Zakaria is pronounced zah-KAHR-yah (/zaˈkarja/).
What Zakaria means
Where Zakaria comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zakaria descends from the Hebrew name Zəḵaryāh, formed from the verb zakhar, "he remembered," joined to a shortened form of the divine name. The meaning reads as a small sentence: God has remembered. In the Hebrew Bible the name belongs to a priest, the father of John the Baptist. The word itself keeps the grammar of an event, an act of memory rather than a quality.
The Arabic tradition took up the same name as Zakariyya, and it is through Arabic that Zakaria reaches many families today. The Quran names him among the righteous. That pairing, Hebrew root and Arabic voice, is part of why the spelling looks the way it does.
On a Polish class register the name sits among Kacper and Jakub without fuss. A teacher reads it once. The meaning stays legible under the spelling: God has remembered.
How many people are named Zakaria
1 in 96154 men in Poland is named Zakaria. 222 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2092 among male names.
Zakaria's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Zakaria as a middle name
Zakaria is a first name for 222 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1338th, between Wolf (37) and Adrián (36).
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#1336 Stephane37
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#1337 Wolf37
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#1338 Zakaria37
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#1339 Adrián36
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#1340 Chidera36