Zechariah (given name)

Zechariah
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	God Has Remembered
Other names
Variant form(s)	Zacharias, Zachary, Zakariya etc.
Nickname(s)	Zac, Zach, Zack, Zak
Related names	Zooey

The male given name Zechariah is derived from the Hebrew זְכַרְיָה, meaning "Yahweh Has Remembered". It is a theophoric name, the ending -iah being a short Hebrew form for the Tetragrammaton.

It has many variant forms and spellings including Sachariah (Scottish Gaelic),^[1] Sakari (Finnish), Sakari(a)s (Faroese), Cherian (Malayalam), Skaria, Xackary, Zacarías, Zaccaria, Zaccharia, Zacharia, Zachariah, Zakharia, Zacharias, Zaharia, Zakaria, Zachery, Zakarija, Zakariya, Sakariye, Zakariyya, Zachary, Zachari, Zackary, Zakary, Zekerijah and Zekeriya.

Common shortened forms of the name are Zach, Zack and Zac, which may also be given names in their own right.

Variants

Albanian: Zekë, Zaho, Zahari, Zeqir
Arabic: زَكَرِيَّا (Zakariya)
Armenian: Զաքարիյա (Zakʿariya)
Belarusian: Захар (Zachar)
Bengali: যাকারিয়া (Zakariya, Jakariya)
Bulgarian: Захария (Zahari)^[2]
Bosnian: Zekerijah
Catalan: Zacaries
Chinese Simplified: 撒迦利亚 (Sājiālìyǎ)
Chinese Traditional: 撒迦利亞 (Sājiālìyǎ)
Danish: Sakarias, Zacharias, Zakarias
English: Zachary, Zachery, Zacharia, Zackery
Faroese: Sakarias, Sakaris, Sakir, Ziska
Filipino: Zacarias
Finnish: Sakari, Sakke, Saku
French: Zacharie
German: Zacharias
Georgian: ზაქარია (Zakaria, ZakCaria), ზაქრო (Zakro), შაქრო (Shakro)
Greek: Ζαχαρίας (Zacharias)
Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה (Zechariah, Zeckeriah, Zekharyah)^[2]
Hindi: ज़कारिया (Zaʾkāriyā)
Hungarian: Zakariás
Italian: Zaccaria
Japanese: ザカライア (Zakaraia)
Kannada: ಜಚರಿಯ (Jacariya)
Korean: 즈카르야 (Jeukarya) or 스가랴 (Seugarya)
Latin: Zaccharias^[2]
Lithuanian: Zakaras, Zakarijas, Zacharijas, Zacharijus, Zakys
Macedonian: Захариј (Zaharij)
Malayalam (Kerala, India): Skaria, Scaria, Sakaria, Sakariah, Cherian,^[3] Kuncherian^{[citation needed]}
Maori: Hakaraia
Persian: زکریا
Polish: Zachariasz, Zachary
Portuguese: Zacarías
Punjabi: ਜ਼ਕਰਯਾਹ (Zakarayāha)
Romanian: Zaharia
Russian: Захарий (Zakhariy), Захария (Zakhariya), Захар (Zakhar)
Scottish Gaelic: Sachairi, Sagairi, Sagaire
Serbian: Захарије (Zaharije), Захарија (Zaharija), Зарија (Zarija), Зарије (Zarije)
Slovak: Zachariáš
Slovenian: Zaharija
Somali: Sakariye, Sekaryaah
Spanish: Zacarías
Swahili: Zakaria
Swedish: Sakarias, Zacharias
Sylheti: যাকারিয়া, যাখারিয়া (Zakariya, Zakhariya)
Tamil: ஜக்கரியா (Jakkariyā)
Thai: ซาคาเรีย (Sākhāreīy)
Turkish: Zekeriya, Zekeriyya
Ukrainian: Захар (Zakhar), Захарій (Zakhariy), Захарія (Zakhariya)
Urdu: زکريّا
Yiddish: זכריה

People

Biblical

Several more minor Bible characters, listed at Zechariah (biblical)
Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), a prophet of the kingdom of Judah
Zechariah (priest), the father of John the Baptist
Zechariah ben Jehoiada, martyred son of the High Priest in the times of Ahaziah and Joash
Zechariah of Israel, king of Israel and son of Jeroboam

Medieval era

Zacharias Rhetor or Scholasticus (c. 465-after 536), bishop and author of the Historia Ecclesiastica
Zacharias I of Makuria (c. 722^{[clarification needed]}), Nubian ruler
Zachariah (Khazar), 9th century Khagan of the Khazars known to have ruled c. 861
Zacharias III of Makuria (c. 822-c. 854), Nubian ruler
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (also known as "Razi" and "Rhazes") (865–925), Persian (Iranian) physician, philosopher and scholar
Pope Zacharias of Alexandria (1004–1032), Coptic Pope

Modern era

Zacarias, Brazilian actor, regular cast member of comedy film series Os Trapalhões
Zacharias (klepht), (1759–1804), Greek klepht
Zakaria Abdulla, Kurdish singer
Zakaria Botros, Coptic priest from Egypt
Zecharias Frankel, (1801–1875), Bohemian-German rabbi and historian
Zacarias Moussaoui, (born 1968), French-Moroccan man convicted of participation in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Zachariah Selwyn, (born 1975), American singer-songwriter, actor, and writer
Zecharia Sitchin, (born 1922), American author promoting the ancient astronaut theory
Zacharias Topelius, (1818–1898), Finland-Swedish author

Fictional characters

Zacharias Smith in the Harry Potter series
Zack (Zacharias) Lane in the novel Zack by William Bell
Brother Zachariah, the name taken on by James Carstairs in The Infernal Devices' and The Mortal Instruments series
Zachariah, an angel, Castiel's superior in the TV series Supernatural

References

^ Am Bìoball Gàidhlig (1992) Comann-Bhìoball Dùthchail na h-Alba ISBN 0-901518-10-7
^ ^a ^b ^c http://www.behindthename.com/name/zechariah
^ Cherian: variant of Zacharias among Kerala Christians. The final -n is a Malayalam masculine suffix. Cherian is only found as a given name in India, but in the diaspora it is also used as a surname. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4, cited at Ancestry.com. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

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[1] Am Bìoball Gàidhlig (1992) Comann-Bhìoball Dùthchail na h-Alba ISBN 0-901518-10-7

[behindthename-2] ttp://www.behindthename.com/name/zechariah

[3] Cherian: variant of Zacharias among Kerala Christians. The final -n is a Malayalam masculine suffix. Cherian is only found as a given name in India, but in the diaspora it is also used as a surname. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4, cited at Ancestry.com. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

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