Zachery
Masculine · “the Lord has remembered”
Zachery is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 29,836 boys against 38 girls since 1880.
Zachery is Zachary with an e, and the Hebrew behind it is a sentence: the Lord has remembered. It belongs to a prophet with a book of his own and to the father of John the Baptist.
How old is the name Zachery?
Zachery first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Zachery alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 29,000 people named Zachery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zachery most popular?
Zachery peaked in 1993, reaching #167 nationally. Today it ranks #2991, 2,824 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Zekharyah to Zachery
The story of Zachery
Zechariah and Zacharias were both in Christian use from the early church, and English took Zachary from the Latin. The name was thin for centuries and then rose extremely fast in twentieth-century America, reaching the top twenty for boys in the 1990s. The respellings followed — Zachery, Zackary, Zachariah — and Zachery peaked in the mid-1990s.
Meaning
the Lord has remembered
From the Hebrew Zekharyah — zakhar, 'he remembered', and Yah, the divine name. Hebrew names of this shape are complete statements. The prophet Zechariah has a book in the Hebrew Bible; Zacharias in Luke is the father of John the Baptist, struck mute until the child is named.
How the name formed
- Zekharyah
- Zacharias
- Zachary
- Zachery
Related forms: Zekharyah · Zachary · Zaccaria · Zakhar
Pronouncing Zachery
ZAK-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. Zachery and Zachary are said identically.
Nicknames for Zachery
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
- 1948
- Most boys named
- 19921,747 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #167reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- −18.0%41 in 2025, from 50
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.
Zachery in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zekharyah in Hebrew — related form
- Zachary in English — spelling variant
- Zaccaria in Italian — related form
- Zakhar in Russian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Zacherys among us
people named Zachery are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 41,660 born in 2025 was named Zachery
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Geoffrey test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zachery's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Geoffrey climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Geoffrey's path sketches the road Zachery is walking now.
Zachery sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Zachery is headed
Zachery should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Zachery beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zachery in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a complete statement rather than a word, which is characteristic of the best Hebrew names.
- Zach is a short form with an enormous independent record.
- Two documented biblical bearers, one of them with a book of his own.
- Zachary is the standard spelling and this one reads as a variant.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zacherys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 29,000 people named Zachery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Zachery in 2025?
- Zachery ranks #2991 among US boy names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zachery?
- About 1 in every 41,660 US boys born in 2025 was named Zachery — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zachery with classmates?
- Zachery will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Zachery
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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