Zechariah (given name)
Zacharias is a male first name, which is also found as a family name. Name day is September 23.
Origin and Meaning of the Name
- Arabic: The Reminder
- Hebrew: Jehovah has remembered
Variants
- Arabic: زكرياء Zakariyya ', Zakaria / زكريا Zakariyya
- English: Zachary, Zachary, Zechariah
- Finnish: Sakari
- French: Zacharie
- Greek: Zαχαριας ( Zacharias )
- Italian: Zaccaria
- Polish: Zachariasz
- Russian: Захар ( Sachar )
- Swedish: Sakarias
- Serbian: Захарије ( Zaharije )
- Spanish: Zacarias
- Turkish: Zekeriya or Zekeriyya
Known Names carrier
- Zechariah (father of John ), biblical person ( by 1 )
- Zacharias of Vienne, Bishop ( 3rd century )
- Zacharias of Mytilene, church historian ( 6th century )
- Zacharias (Jerusalem), Patriarch of Jerusalem ( 609-631 )
- Zacharias ( Nobatia ), Nubian King ( 650 )
- Zacharias ( Pope ) (c. 679-752 )
- Zacharias Hildebrandt (1688-1757), German organ builder
- Zacharias Werner (1768-1823), German poet, dramatist and priest
- Zacharias Preen (* 1965), German actor
Nickname Zac
- Zac Efron (* 1987), American actor
- Zac Posen ( born 1980 ), American fashion designer
- Zac Purchase ( born 1986 ), British rower
Nickname Zach
- Zach Bell ( b. 1982 ), Canadian cyclist
- Zach Braff ( born 1975 ), American actor, director and screenwriter
- Zach Brock ( born 1974 ), American jazz violinist
- Zach Tyler Eisen (* 1993), American actor
- Zach Freeman ( born 1985 ), American basketball player
- Zach Galligan (born 1964 ), American actor
- Zach Johnson (born 1976 ), American golfer
- Zach Randolph ( born 1981 ), American basketball player
- Zach Wells ( born 1981 ), American soccer goalkeeper
Nickname Zacchaeus
- Zacchaeus, biblical person
- Zacchaeus (Jerusalem) (also: Zacharias, † 116? ), Patriarch of Jerusalem, Holy
- Zacchaeus from Horrich (1561-1633), priest and ex officio proceedings in the Archdiocese of Cologne
- Zacchaeus Faber the Elder (1554-1628), German hymn writer
- Zacchaeus Faber the Younger (1583-1632), German hymn writer
Nickname Zachary
- Zachary Levi ( born 1980 ), American actor
- Zachary Quinto ( b. 1977 ), American actor
- Zachary Scott (1914-1965), American actor
- Zachary Stevens (born 1966 ), American rock singer
- Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the United States of America
- Zachary Williams ( * 1994), American actor
Nickname Zachery
- Zachery Ty Bryan ( born 1981 ), American actor
Dissemination of the family name
In Germany and Austria around 2000 families bear this name. In Germany, it is especially common in the Siegen -Wittgenstein district and beading.
Carrier of the family name
- Adolf Nicholas Zacharias ( judge) ( 1858-1931 ), Hamburg lawyer, and deputy
- Alfred Zacharias (1901-1998), German educator, artist and writer
- Ann Zacharias ( born 1956 ), Swedish actress, screenwriter and director
- Christian Zacharias ( born 1950 ), German pianist and conductor
- Christoph Zacharias (*?), German economist
- Dietmar Zacharias ( born 1959 ), German biologist and Professor of Applied and Ecological Botany at the University of Bremen
- Eddi Zacharias, German film actor
- Eduard Zacharias (1852-1911), German botanist
- Emil Zacharias (1867-1944), German chemist
- Emil Otto Zacharias (1846-1916), German zoologist, plankton researcher, journalist, popular science writer
- Ernst Zacharias (* 1924), German musician and engineer
- Georg Zacharias (1886-1953), German swimmer
- Helmut Zacharias (1920-2002), German violinist
- Isabell Zacharias (born 1965 ), German politician (SPD )
- J. E. Zacharias, k.u.k. Court glove factory in Vienna Nut village
- Max Zacharias (* 1878), German mathematician
- Michael Zacharias ( born 1945 ), German professor of marketing
- Olympic Zacharias ( born 1986 ), Nauruan athlete
- Otto Zacharias (1846-1916), German zoologist, plankton researcher, journalist
- Ravi Zacharias ( born 1946 ), scholars of religion
- Steffen Zacharias (1927-1989), Greek actor
- Stephan Zacharias ( born 1956 ), German composer
- Thomas Zacharias ( born 1947 ), German track and field athlete
- Thorsten Zacharias (born 1965 ), German handball league referee
- Wanda Zacharias (1931-2008), German painter and illustrator
- Wolfgang Zacharias ( born 1941 ), German art and culture educator
- Nadia Zachary, Egyptian since 2011 Minister for Scientific Research
- Fareed Zakaria (born 1964 ), journalist
- Rafiq Zakaria (1920-2005), Indian politician, lawyer and author