Zach
Zach was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,515 among boys’ names; 2,804 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Zach and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zach by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zach mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zach is “a diminutive of the male given names Zachariah, Zacharias, and Zachary.”
/zæk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zach?
#2,515 among boys’ names, 2025
Zach fell from #2,000 in 2015 to #2,515 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.1 to 31.6 per million.
86 babies in 2007, the peak
Zach peaked in 2007, when 86 boys were given it, #1,740 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,515 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,443 | 33.1 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,275 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,405 | 33.8 |
| 2021 | 75 | #1,998 | 42.9 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,390 | 32.4 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,262 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,165 | 35.8 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,670 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,990 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,000 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,095 | 34.9 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,913 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,152 | 33.2 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,966 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,322 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,940 | 37.3 |
| 2008 | 85 | #1,774 | 41.7 |
| 2007 | 86 | #1,740 | 41.4 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,789 | 38.0 |
| 2005 | 81 | #1,670 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 75 | #1,714 | 37.8 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,698 | 37.0 |
| 2002 | 65 | #1,788 | 33.5 |
| 2001 | 56 | #1,955 | 28.8 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,889 | 28.5 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,019 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,847 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,122 | 22.3 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,476 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,550 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,175 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,001 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,772 | 24.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,399 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,078 | 17.5 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,146 | 16.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,502 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,731 | 20.9 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,834 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,642 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,977 | 15.5 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,708 | 19.0 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,812 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,994 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,828 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,632 | 20.9 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,374 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,903 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,326 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,882 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,128 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,611 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,602 | 18.5 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,682 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,619 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,400 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,904 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,982 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,241 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,048 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,303 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,320 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,682 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,288 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,640 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,550 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,626 | 5.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,253 | 2.6 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,780 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,042 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,029 | 4.5 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,150 | 5.0 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,738 | 6.3 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,279 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,808 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,213 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,525 | 5.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,257 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zach a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zach has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zach: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zach, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,804 Americans ever recorded as Zach. The median Zach alive today is 21 years old; half are between 12 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 43,052 people named Zach (70 women and girls, 42,982 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Zach rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 62 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 258 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 519 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 786 |
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).
Where are babies named Zach born?
The states with the most babies named Zach are Florida, Texas and California, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,349 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,274 | 0.8× |
| California | 6 | #2,462 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,277 | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | #2,037 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zach with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,024 babies since 1880, Zach is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 229 babies (24%), again the second most given.
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 Zach
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Zach and names like it
- Compare Zach and ZackBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZach peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zach since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Zach.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zach alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.