Zachry
Zachry was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 967 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zachry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zachry mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zachry is “Alternative form of Zachary, a surname transferred from the given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zachry?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,718, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1985, the peak
Zachry peaked in 1985, when 47 boys were given it, #1,450 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | #9,718 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #14,052 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,666 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 5 | #14,016 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,700 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #14,185 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,740 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #7,067 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,675 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,750 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,609 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,293 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,211 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,783 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,609 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,548 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,791 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,413 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,097 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,707 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,342 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,741 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,677 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,301 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,117 | 19.4 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,461 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,912 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,079 | 17.5 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,852 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,843 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,825 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,757 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 47 | #1,450 | 25.4 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,362 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,820 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,205 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,895 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,096 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,102 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,204 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,035 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,599 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #4,047 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zachry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zachry has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zachry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zachry, and how old are they?
An estimated 926 Americans named Zachry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 885 people named Zachry (0 women and girls, 885 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 Zachry born?
The states with the most babies named Zachry are Texas, Georgia and California, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 281 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zachry is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zachry is most over-represented in Texas: since 1973 it was given 3.4 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 Zachry 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 586,428 babies since 1880, Zachry is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,696 babies recorded by SSA was a Zachry (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 Zachry
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 Zachry and names like it
- Compare Zachry and ZacharyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sZachry peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zachry since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Zachry.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zachry alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.