Zackary
Masculine · “the Lord has remembered”
Zackary is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 31,593 boys against 7 girls since 1880.
Zackary is Zachary spelled the way it sounds, and the Hebrew behind it is a sentence: the Lord has remembered. It belongs to a prophet with a book and to the father of John the Baptist.
How old is the name Zackary?
Zackary first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Zackary alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 31,000 people named Zackary are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zackary most popular?
Zackary peaked in 1994, reaching #232 nationally. Today it ranks #1509, 1,277 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Zekharyah to Zackary
The story of Zackary
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, Zackery — and Zackary 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
- Zackary
Related forms: Zachary · Zekharyah · Zaccaria
Pronouncing Zackary
ZAK-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings are said identically.
Nicknames for Zackary
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
- 1921
- Most boys named
- 20011,386 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #232reached in 1994
- Change vs 2023
- −20.5%116 in 2025, from 146
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.
Zackary in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zachary in English — spelling variant
- Zekharyah in Hebrew — related form
- Zaccaria in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Zackarys among us
people named Zackary are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 14,725 born in 2025 was named Zackary
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zackary
- #1509
- Zackary on the 2025 chart
- #526
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zackary went to 116 boys in 2025, but Zakari, Zacari and Zakhari and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 462, which makes it the 526th most-given boys’ name of the year — 983 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 3,697 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,725 for Zackary itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Frankie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zackary's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Frankie climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Frankie's path sketches the road Zackary is walking now.
Zackary 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 Zackary is headed
Zackary is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
High 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.
Zackary beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zackary 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.
- This spelling makes the Zack clipping visible in the full name.
- 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 Zackarys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 31,000 people named Zackary are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zackary?
- Zackary is one of 7 recorded spellings. Zakari is the more common one — 206 births in 2025 against 116 for Zackary.
- How popular is the name Zackary in 2025?
- Zackary ranks #1509 among US boy names in 2025, with 116 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zackary?
- About 1 in every 14,725 US boys born in 2025 was named Zackary — 116 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zackary with classmates?
- Zackary will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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