Sakarias
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: Zacharias
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakarias is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Sweden.
- SESweden
- NONorway
- IDIndonesia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Zacharias
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Sakarias is read(measured from records)
Sakarias is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sakarias in Indonesian.
- Swedish21%
Se Zacharias.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sakarias in English.
- Norwegian8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sakarias in Norwegian.
- Finnish7.3%
Zacharias
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zechariahb. 550not in their usual namebiblical prophet
- Zacharyb. 679ITnot in their usual namepope
- Zechariahb. 800not in their usual nameking of the Kingdom of Israel; son of Jeroboam II
- Zechariah Aghmatib. 1120MAnot in their usual nameRabbi, Talmudist
- Zechariah Dhahirib. 1530YEnot in their usual nameYemeni poet
- Sakarias Jaan Leppikb. 1969EEEstonian politician, priest, musician and educator (born 1969)
- Sakarias Opsahlb. 1999NONorwegian footballer
- Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Leibnot in their usual nameGalician rabbi
- Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Leib of Cracownot in their usual namePolish rabbi
- Zakariyya Sulayman BayyumiEGnot in their usual nameEgyptian historian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.6K | #604 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 899 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 837 | #1,925 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 630 | #2,158 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 316 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 309 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 295 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 288 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 275 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 272 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 260 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 256 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sakarias mean, and where does it come from?
- Zacharias Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sakarias a male or female name?
- Sakarias is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sakarias have the most bearers?
- Sakarias is most frequently recorded in Sweden.
What do you want to know about Sakarias?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakariasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sakarias”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.