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Zachari vs Zackary

American parents have registered 31,600 Zackarys since 1880, against 907 Zacharis. Zackary is still ahead, with 116 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zachari against Zackary, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zachari Zackary

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Zackary has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Zachari had 14 and Zackary had 131.

Side by side

  Zachari Zackary
Total US births 90731,600
Most in one year 361,386
Babies in 2025 9116
Estimated living today 88031,000
Median age today 2625
Peak year 19912001
Best rank 2,052nd boys244th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd1,509th
First recorded 19771921
Girls / boys 0 / 9077 / 31,593

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zachari Zackary
England and Wales 731,181
France 250820

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zachari and Zackary.