Zakari is a phonetic spelling of Zachary, from the Hebrew Zechariah, which means "the Lord has remembered" or "God remembers"; it also sits close to the Arabic form Zakariya. The spelling with a final i took hold in the United States in the 2010s. Zakari rose from number 2233 in 2015 into the top 1000 at number 1030 in 2023 and ranks number 1062 in 2025.