Zackary
Zackary was given to 116 boys in 2025, #1,513 among boys’ names; 31,600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,700 Americans named Zackary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zackary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zackary mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zackary is “Alternative form of Zachary, a male given name from Hebrew.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zackary?
#1,513 among boys’ names, 2025
Zackary fell from #754 in 2015 to #1,513 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.17 to 0.07 per 1,000.
1,386 babies in 2001, the peak
Zackary peaked in 2001, when 1,386 boys were given it, #244 among boys’ names. The 116 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,513 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,416 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 146 | #1,314 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,244 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 205 | #1,049 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,118 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,071 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 208 | #997 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 252 | #867 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 314 | #772 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 321 | #754 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 435 | #616 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 467 | #565 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 523 | #507 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 600 | #451 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 696 | #406 | 0.36 |
| 2009 | 834 | #365 | 0.42 |
| 2008 | 870 | #359 | 0.43 |
| 2007 | 950 | #338 | 0.46 |
| 2006 | 998 | #321 | 0.49 |
| 2005 | 1,066 | #310 | 0.53 |
| 2004 | 1,105 | #288 | 0.56 |
| 2003 | 1,169 | #268 | 0.59 |
| 2002 | 1,275 | #254 | 0.66 |
| 2001 | 1,386 | #244 | 0.71 |
| 2000 | 1,351 | #250 | 0.69 |
| 1999 | 1,359 | #238 | 0.71 |
| 1998 | 1,345 | #235 | 0.70 |
| 1997 | 1,203 | #247 | 0.64 |
| 1996 | 1,239 | #240 | 0.65 |
| 1995 | 1,192 | #243 | 0.63 |
| 1994 | 1,274 | #232 | 0.66 |
| 1993 | 1,213 | #239 | 0.62 |
| 1992 | 1,030 | #278 | 0.52 |
| 1991 | 777 | #325 | 0.38 |
| 1990 | 743 | #333 | 0.36 |
| 1989 | 680 | #339 | 0.34 |
| 1988 | 587 | #355 | 0.31 |
| 1987 | 460 | #406 | 0.25 |
| 1986 | 364 | #460 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 340 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 264 | #528 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 227 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 173 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 146 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 133 | #762 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 120 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 85 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 86 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 77 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,207 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,375 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,808 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #2,028 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,889 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,898 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,693 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,959 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,874 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,856 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,197 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 20 | #1,835 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,956 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zackary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zackary has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zackary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zackary, and how old are they?
30,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 31,600 Americans ever recorded as Zackary. The median Zackary alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 23,961 people named Zackary (39 women and girls, 23,922 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 30,063 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 165 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 719 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,100 |
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 Zackary born?
The states with the most babies named Zackary are Texas, California and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,411 | 0.8× |
| California | 11 | #1,580 | 0.7× |
| New York | 9 | #1,291 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,474 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #922 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,225 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 5 | #991 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #812 | 1.4× |
Where Zackary is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zackary is most over-represented in Utah: since 1921 it was given 1.8 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 Zackary 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 62,442 babies since 1880, Zackary is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 451 babies (26%), the second most given that year.
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 Zackary
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 Zackary and names like it
- Compare Zackary and ZackeryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZackary peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zackary since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zackary: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Zackary.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zackary alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.