Did you know that Zecariah, the prophet, was not named Zechariah at all, but his real name is "Zek-ar-Yahu", which means "Yah has remembered"? Yah, and Yahu are two of the shortened versions of our Heavenly Father's Name, Yahuwah. Yahuwah's Name was so honored and magnified that many people named their children after Him.
Due to clear instructions from Scripture that say we are to proclaim, magnify and lift up our Heavenly Father's Name, we are working to restore not only His Name, but also the names of those who have a part of His Name in theirs.
When one understands the meaning of our Creator's Name as found in the original Hebrew Pictographic Script, (Behold the Hand, Behold the Stake) they can then see how Malachi 3:16 is much like John 3:16, in that it gives a special promise to those who talk of, and think upon Yahuwah's Name:
Then they that feared Yahuwah spake often one to another: and Yahuwah hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Yahuwah, and that thought upon his name. (17) And they shall be mine, saith Yahuwah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (18) Then shall ye return, and discern between therighteous and the wicked, between him that serveth Elohim and him that serveth him not. Mal 3:16-18