Zachery
Zachery was given to 41 boys in 2025, #3,034 among boys’ names; 29,874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 28,700 Americans named Zachery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 26 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zachery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zachery mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zachery is “Alternative form of Zachary, a male given name from Hebrew and a surname transferred from the given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zachery?
#3,034 among boys’ names, 2025
Zachery fell from #1,639 in 2015 to #3,034 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 51.1 to 24.0 per million.
1,903 babies in 1993, the peak
Zachery peaked in 1993, when 1,903 boys were given it, #167 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,034 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 54 | #2,523 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,657 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,713 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 54 | #2,496 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,654 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,040 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,978 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 83 | #1,819 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,787 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #1,639 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,361 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 165 | #1,111 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,000 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 270 | #814 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 296 | #760 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 395 | #636 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 395 | #627 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 464 | #555 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 525 | #493 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 626 | #427 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 618 | #422 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 681 | #386 | 0.34 |
| 2002 | 856 | #323 | 0.44 |
| 2001 | 895 | #309 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 1,150 | #277 | 0.59 |
| 1999 | 1,219 | #258 | 0.63 |
| 1998 | 1,291 | #242 | 0.68 |
| 1997 | 1,321 | #233 | 0.70 |
| 1996 | 1,374 | #219 | 0.73 |
| 1995 | 1,533 | #198 | 0.81 |
| 1994 | 1,729 | #180 | 0.89 |
| 1993 | 1,903 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 1,747 | #184 | 0.87 |
| 1991 | 1,248 | #236 | 0.62 |
| 1990 | 1,229 | #234 | 0.60 |
| 1989 | 1,024 | #253 | 0.51 |
| 1988 | 871 | #270 | 0.46 |
| 1987 | 687 | #311 | 0.37 |
| 1986 | 641 | #318 | 0.35 |
| 1985 | 646 | #316 | 0.35 |
| 1984 | 433 | #393 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 344 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1982 | 290 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 221 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 218 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 202 | #606 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 152 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 141 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 109 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 85 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 81 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 69 | #977 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,180 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 41 | #1,312 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,281 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,213 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,399 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 31 | #1,403 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 34 | #1,369 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,626 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,544 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,177 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 28 | #1,550 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 30 | #1,465 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,632 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,606 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,609 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,705 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,684 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,194 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zachery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zachery has been given almost only to boys: 38 girls in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zachery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zachery, and how old are they?
28,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 29,874 Americans ever recorded as Zachery. The median Zachery alive today is 31 years old; half are between 26 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 22,042 people named Zachery (35 women and girls, 22,007 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,782 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 244 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 993 |
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 Zachery born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,077 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,824 | 0.8× |
Where Zachery is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zachery is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1948 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Zachery 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 586,505 babies since 1880, Zachery is the second most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 1,696 babies (2.4%), 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 Zachery
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 Zachery and names like it
- Compare Zachery and ZacharyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZachery peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zachery since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zachery: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Zachery.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zachery alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.