| [ syll. zec-ha-riah, ze-chari-ah ] The boy name Zechariah is pronounced ZEHK-erAYah- KEY. Zechariah is of Hebrew origin. It is used mainly in the English and Hebrew languages. Zechariah is a variant of Zachary (English). Zechariah is rather popular as a baby boy name. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1980s; before that, it was of only infrequent use. Its usage peaked modestly in 2007 with 0.016% of baby boys being given the name Zechariah. It had a ranking of #670 then. Among the family of boy names directly linked to Zechariah, Zachary (English) was the most popular in 2007. It was more commonly used than Zechariah by 28 times in that year. Baby names that sound like Zechariah include Zaccaria (Italian), Zachariah (English and Hebrew), Zacharie (French), Zachary (English), Zachery (English), Zackary (English), Zackery (English), Zakary (English), Zahir (Arabic, Swahili, and Turkish), and Tsar (Russian). KEY: approx pronunciation for Zechariah: Z as in "zee (Z.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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