Zakari
Zakari was given to 206 boys in 2025, #1,062 among boys’ names; 2,729 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Zakari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakari?
#1,062 among boys’ names, 2025
Zakari rose from #2,233 in 2015 to #1,062 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.12 per 1,000.
228 babies in 2023, the peak
Zakari peaked in 2023, when 228 babies were given it (213 boys, #1,030 among boys’ names). The 215 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 206 | #1,062 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 198 | #1,095 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 213 | #1,030 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 184 | #1,142 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,298 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 172 | #1,141 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 178 | #1,111 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 165 | #1,167 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,552 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 95 | #1,674 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,233 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,057 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,056 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,230 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,400 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,221 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,628 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,917 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,217 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,153 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,341 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,982 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,633 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,088 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,784 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,991 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,708 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,729 Americans recorded as Zakari, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 206 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zakari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakari, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,729 Americans ever recorded as Zakari. The median Zakari alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,243 people named Zakari (142 women and girls, 1,101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,566 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 142 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 598 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
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 Zakari born?
The states with the most babies named Zakari are Texas, Florida and North Carolina, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,167 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 15 | #956 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #677 | 1.4× |
| Maryland | 11 | #474 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 11 | #667 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #718 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #909 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #762 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,094 | 1.4× |
| New York | 8 | #1,408 | 0.5× |
Where Zakari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakari is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1986 it was given 1.4 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 Zakari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Zakari?
Zakari is a less common spelling of Zackary: SSA has recorded 2,729 Zakari and 31,600 Zackary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 49,530 babies since 1880, Zakari is the fourth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 215 of their 652 babies (33%), the 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 Zakari
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 Zakari and names like it
- Compare Zakari and ZackaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZakari peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakari since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zakari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zakari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.