Zakary
Zakary was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,387 among boys’ names; 5,613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,470 Americans named Zakary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakary?
#5,387 among boys’ names, 2025
Zakary fell from #1,909 in 2015 to #5,387 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.2 to 10.5 per million.
266 babies in 2002, the peak
Zakary peaked in 2002, when 266 boys were given it, #686 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,387 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,693 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,875 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,295 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,239 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,271 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,342 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,051 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,268 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,516 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #1,909 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 94 | #1,654 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,527 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,327 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,358 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 127 | #1,348 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 159 | #1,152 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 184 | #1,036 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,087 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 222 | #888 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 202 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 210 | #847 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 239 | #750 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 266 | #686 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 226 | #760 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 234 | #733 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 208 | #768 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 207 | #767 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 196 | #760 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 187 | #782 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 193 | #771 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 201 | #740 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 213 | #710 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 209 | #712 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 131 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 136 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,055 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,437 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 37 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,036 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,707 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,183 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,654 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,718 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zakary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakary, and how old are they?
5,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,613 Americans ever recorded as Zakary. The median Zakary alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 4,468 people named Zakary (12 women and girls, 4,456 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 134 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 622 |
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 Zakary born?
The states with the most babies named Zakary are California, Texas and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 454 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 423 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 267 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 263 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 218 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 210 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 195 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 179 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 129 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Washington | 123 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Zakary is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakary is most over-represented in Utah: since 1970 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 Zakary 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 Zakary?
Zakary is a less common spelling of Zackary: SSA has recorded 5,613 Zakary and 31,600 Zackary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,146 babies since 1880, Zakary is the third most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 685 babies (2.6%), the sixth 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 Zakary
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 Zakary and names like it
- Compare Zakary and ZackaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZakary peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakary since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Zakary.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zakary alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.