Zacharias

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Ζαχαριας (Zacharias), a Greek form of the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zecharyah) meaning 'Yahweh (God) remembers' (see also JO) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Sakarias
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Sakarías
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Sakariias
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Finish
Sakkarias
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian
Zacarias Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Zacharias
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Zackarias
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Zakarias
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Swedish
Zakarías
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic

See also

For female forms see Sakarine and Zacharia

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Zacharias
Genitive: Zacharias'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Zacharias
Genitive: Zachariaksen
Partitive: Zachariasta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Zacharias
Genitive: Zacharias'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Zacharias
Genitive: Zacharias' / Zacharias

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

15 March

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

14 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Zacharias (Zachris) Topelius (14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898), Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 92 people were named Zacharias (percentage of first or only given name: 5 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
834 1528 6 8 828 1520
Denmark Denmark[9]
349
n.a.
0
n.a.
349
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
616 0 0
n.a.
616
Norway Norway[11]
66
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
66
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Zacharias (m) Sources: [8][9][11][10]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Zacharias (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Zacharias (m)


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/