Zackery
Zackery was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,509 among boys’ names; 17,753 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,100 Americans named Zackery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zackery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zackery mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zackery 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 Zackery?
#3,509 among boys’ names, 2025
Zackery fell from #1,380 in 2015 to #3,509 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 65.7 to 19.3 per million.
861 babies in 1994, the peak
Zackery peaked in 1994, when 861 boys were given it, #307 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,509 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,601 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,610 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,096 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,620 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,415 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,289 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 83 | #1,836 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 82 | #1,827 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 80 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,380 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 141 | #1,271 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,202 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 221 | #914 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 311 | #738 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 334 | #713 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 384 | #640 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 415 | #607 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 422 | #583 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 494 | #502 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 488 | #501 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 570 | #442 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 618 | #411 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 697 | #376 | 0.36 |
| 2000 | 710 | #369 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 742 | #352 | 0.39 |
| 1998 | 775 | #345 | 0.41 |
| 1997 | 761 | #341 | 0.40 |
| 1996 | 833 | #316 | 0.44 |
| 1995 | 821 | #320 | 0.43 |
| 1994 | 861 | #307 | 0.45 |
| 1993 | 847 | #315 | 0.43 |
| 1992 | 777 | #326 | 0.39 |
| 1991 | 545 | #416 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 543 | #419 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 520 | #412 | 0.26 |
| 1988 | 380 | #470 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 322 | #497 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 295 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 310 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 227 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 175 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 140 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 117 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 100 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 97 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 102 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 78 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,123 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,650 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,772 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,543 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,033 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,819 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,046 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,326 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,665 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zackery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zackery has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zackery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zackery, and how old are they?
17,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 17,753 Americans ever recorded as Zackery. The median Zackery alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 12,696 people named Zackery (34 women and girls, 12,662 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,069 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 151 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 650 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 976 |
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 Zackery born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,567 | 0.9× |
| California | 5 | #2,809 | 0.5× |
Where Zackery is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zackery is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1948 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 Zackery 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 59,482 babies since 1880, Zackery is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 167 babies (20%), 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 Zackery
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 Zackery and names like it
- Compare Zackery and ZackaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZackery peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zackery since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Zackery.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zackery alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.