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Zachari vs Zackery

American parents have registered 17,753 Zackerys since 1880, against 907 Zacharis. Zackery is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zachari against Zackery, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zachari Zackery

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

Zackery has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Zachari had 14 and Zackery had 32.

Side by side

  Zachari Zackery
Total US births 90717,753
Most in one year 36861
Babies in 2025 933
Estimated living today 88017,000
Median age today 2628
Peak year 19911994
Best rank 2,052nd boys307th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd3,450th
First recorded 19771948
Girls / boys 0 / 9075 / 17,748

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Zackerys alive today are over 28; half the Zacharis are over 26. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zachari Zackery
England and Wales 73366

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 Zackery.