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Meaning & Origins
English vernacular form of the New Testament Greek name Zacharias, a form of Hebrew Zechariah ‘God has remembered’. This was the name of the father of John the Baptist, who underwent a temporary period of dumbness for his lack of faith (Luke 1), and of a more obscure figure, Zacharias son of Barachias, who was slain ‘between the temple and the altar’ (Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51). In the United States it is familiar as the name of a 19th-century president, Zachary Taylor. Since the 1990s the name has been remarkably popular in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places named with the plural of Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topopgraphical name from this word (in its plural form), for example Wells in Somerset or Wellsnext-the-Sea in Norfolk.
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Nicknames & variations
Zachariah, Zachery, Zacharia, Zachar, Zacharie, Zachari, Zacharey, Zacharay, Zacharih, Zacharah
Wallace, Willis, Walls, Weller, Wills, Wellman, Wellington, Wallis, Welling, Wellborn
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