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The zachariah Surname

zachariah Name Meaning and History

Indian (Kerala): from the Hebrew personal name zakhar’yah (see Zacharias), found as a personal name among Christians in Kerala (southern India) and in the U.S. used as a last name among families from Kerala.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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zachariah Family Facts

Distribution of zachariah Families in the US in 1920
Number of zachariah families
 4-5
 2-3
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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