Zacary
Masculine · “The Lord has remembered”
Zacary removes the h and the c then has to be read as a k by rule. English says c hard before an a, so the spelling works without the h that the standard form uses; taking it out makes the name shorter and slightly more regular than the version everybody writes.
How old is the name Zacary?
Zacary first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Zacary alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 1,100 people named Zacary are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zacary most popular?
Zacary peaked in 1999, reaching #1624 nationally. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From Zekharyah to Zacary
The story of Zacary
The prophet of this name saw some of the strangest things in the Hebrew Bible. In the space of a few chapters he is shown a flying scroll thirty feet long that goes into houses and consumes them; a woman sitting inside a barrel who is identified as wickedness itself and pushed back in with a lead lid; two women with wings like a stork who carry the barrel away to Babylon; four chariots with horses of different colors coming out from between two bronze mountains; and a lampstand fed by two olive trees. The visions are explained to him by an interpreting angel, and the explanations do not help very much.
Meaning
The Lord has remembered
Hebrew zakhar, to remember, with the divine element, making a short sentence about God calling something to mind. The ch in the usual English spelling is a Greek convention for a Hebrew letter and has nothing to do with the ch of church.
How the name formed
- Zekharyah
- Zacharias
- Zachary
- Zacary
Related forms: Zacarias · Zaccaria · Zakariya
Pronouncing Zacary
ZAK-uh-ree
Three syllables with the stress at the front, said exactly as the standard spelling. The c is hard because an a follows it, which is the ordinary English rule and needs no h to enforce.
Nicknames for Zacary
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 200067 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1624reached in 1999
- Change vs 2016
- −25.0%6 in 2024, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Zacary in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zacarias in Spanish — same name
- Zaccaria in Italian — same name
- Zakariya in Arabic — same name
Zacarys among us
people named Zacary are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Zacary sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling is one letter shorter and no more ambiguous than the standard form.
- Zac and Cary are two short forms with nothing in common.
- The spoken name is completely established and never needs repeating.
- Zachary is enormously commoner and this will be read as a slip.
- The missing h removes the Greek convention that connects the name to its relatives.
- It is closely dated to the last decades of the twentieth century.
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- How many Zacarys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Zacary are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Zacary in 2025?
- Zacary is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Zacary with classmates?
- Zacary will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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