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Zachery vs Zachory

American parents have registered 29,874 Zacherys since 1880, against 734 Zachorys. Zachery is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zachery against Zachory, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zachery Zachory

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

Zachery 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 1972, when Zachery had 59 and Zachory had 7.

Side by side

  Zachery Zachory
Total US births 29,874734
Most in one year 1,90347
Babies in 2025 41under 5
Estimated living today 29,000710
Median age today 3031
Peak year 19931992
Best rank 167th boys1,778th boys
Rank in 2025 2,991stunranked
First recorded 19481972
Girls / boys 38 / 29,8360 / 734

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 Zachery Zachory
England and Wales 6346

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: Zachery and Zachory.