Fun Facts About the Name Zakius
- 50 babies named Zakius: U.S. records list 50 babies given the name Zakius from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Zakius Mean?
Zakius is a rare masculine given name formed with the Latin ending -ius, a suffix that Latin and later European naming traditions attached to many personal names. It is usually connected to the biblical name Zacchaeus, which appears in the Greek New Testament as Zakchaios and in the Latin Bible as Zacchaeus. That name goes back to the Hebrew Zakkai, built on the root zak, meaning clean or clear, and commonly translated as pure or innocent. On this explanation, Zakius is a Latinized reshaping of Zacchaeus rather than a name with a separate root.
The connection is a traditional derivation rather than one set out in the surviving ancient texts, so the meaning rests on it indirectly. Zakius is also unrelated to Zachary and Zachariah, which descend from a different Hebrew name, Zekharyah, meaning the Lord remembers, in spite of the matching first letters.
Zakius Name History & Origins
The fuller history belongs to Zacchaeus. In the Gospel of Luke (19:1 - 10) he is a chief tax collector in Jericho who climbs a sycamore tree to see Jesus and afterward promises to give half his possessions to the poor. The Greek text of Luke calls him Zakchaios, and the Latin Vulgate uses Zacchaeus, the form that passed into western European languages. The same Hebrew name, Zakkai, appears in rabbinic literature in the name of Yochanan ben Zakkai, a first-century teacher linked with the academy at Yavne.
Names ending in -ius were common in Latin and were used to reshape vernacular names in church and legal records; the same ending gave a classical sound to names revived in later centuries. Zakius follows that pattern and can be understood as an elaborated, Latinized form of the short name Zak, itself a familiar shortening of the biblical name. Its own record as a distinct given name is thin, and most of what the name carries comes from the Zacchaeus tradition behind it.
How Popular is the Name Zakius?
Zakius has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #4,863 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,669 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #4,863 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2023 | #8,900 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #6,683 | 13 | 0.0007% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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