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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
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
See also
For female forms see Sakarine and Zacharia
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Zacharias
|
Genitive: |
Zacharias'
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Zacharias
|
Genitive: |
Zachariaksen
|
Partitive: |
Zachariasta
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Zacharias
|
Genitive: |
Zacharias'
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Zacharias
|
Genitive: |
Zacharias' / Zacharias
|
Name Days
Denmark
|
15 March
|
![Finland (Swedish Language)](https://www.nordicnames.de/img/flags/fi.png) 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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
834 |
1528 |
6 |
8 |
828 |
1520 |
Denmark[9] |
|
349 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
349 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
616 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
616 |
Norway[11] |
|
66 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
66 |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [8][9][11][10]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Zacharias (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/