Zacary
Zacary was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,137 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Zacary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zacary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zacary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,309, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 2000, the peak
Zacary peaked in 2000, when 67 boys were given it, #1,708 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #12,309 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,636 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,995 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,757 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,908 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,382 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,348 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,706 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,827 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,417 | 16.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 37 | #3,129 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,474 | 24.3 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,696 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,277 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,026 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,063 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,735 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 67 | #1,708 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 66 | #1,638 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,867 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,644 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,903 | 25.3 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,438 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,839 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,962 | 21.4 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,827 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,911 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,770 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,775 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,344 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,634 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,774 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,706 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,210 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,407 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,997 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,954 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,233 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,348 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,218 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zacary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zacary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zacary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zacary, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,137 Americans ever recorded as Zacary. The median Zacary alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,150 people named Zacary (3 women and girls, 1,147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 695 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 43 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Zacary?
Zacary is a less common spelling of Zackary: SSA has recorded 1,137 Zacary and 31,600 Zackary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 62,442 babies since 1880, Zacary is the seventh most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 451 babies recorded by SSA was a Zacary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zacary
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Marcoantonio | 1,521 | |
| Jakeb | 1,170 | |
| Zackary | 31,600 | |
| Justyn | 4,550 | |
| Marcanthony | 1,399 | |
| Zakary | 5,613 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zacary and names like it
- Compare Zacary and ZackaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZacary peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zacary since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Zacary.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zacary alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.