Zakery
Masculine · “the Lord has remembered”
Zakery writes a Hebrew name with the Greek letters taken out. The standard spelling carries a ch that says k, inherited from the Greek transliteration and useless in English; this one writes the sound directly. The name underneath was one of the commonest in the Hebrew Bible: around thirty different men carry it.
How old is the name Zakery?
Zakery first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Zakery alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 1,300 people named Zakery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zakery most popular?
Zakery peaked in 1993, reaching #1295 nationally. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Hebrew sentence about remembering to Zakery
The story of Zakery
The prophet who carries the name supplied an image that outlived everything else he wrote. In a passage about a king coming to his city he specifies the transport: not a warhorse but a donkey, and a young one at that, which in that context is a deliberate refusal of the usual iconography of a victorious ruler. The line was quoted afterwards in the accounts of one particular entry into Jerusalem, and the donkey has been in the story ever since, on windows, in paintings, in processions and in the palms handed out once a year. The rest of the book is difficult, visionary and rarely read; that one animal is known to people who could not name the prophet.
Meaning
the Lord has remembered
Two Hebrew elements, a verb about remembering and a shortened form of the divine name, and the reading is settled. It is a complete statement rather than a description, which is how a great many Hebrew names are built. Neither the k nor the respelled ending affects the meaning.
How the name formed
- A Hebrew sentence about remembering
- Carried by some thirty men in the biblical record
- Transliterated through Greek with a ch
- Zakery writing the sound without it
Related forms: Zecharyah · Zacharie · Zaccaria
Pronouncing Zakery
ZAK-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first, with the middle reduced almost to nothing. That reduction is why the middle vowel appears as an a, an e and an i across the several spellings, all of them sounding identical.
Nicknames for Zakery
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
- 1977
- Most boys named
- 199377 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1295reached in 1993
- Change vs 2017
- −44.4%5 in 2018, from 9
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.
Zakery in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zecharyah in Hebrew — transliteration
- Zacharie in French — related form
- Zaccaria in Italian — related form
Zakerys among us
people named Zakery are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Zakery 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 meaning is a complete sentence and easy to explain to a child.
- Zak is immediate, current and understood everywhere.
- The spelling writes the sound without any Greek machinery.
- Zachary is the standard spelling and this will be corrected into it constantly.
- Four or five spellings are in circulation and none is rare.
- The z at the front makes the name unmistakable and slightly conspicuous.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zakerys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Zakery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Zakery in 2025?
- Zakery is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Zakery with classmates?
- Zakery will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More Z names
The most-given names starting with Z, all years combined.
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