Zachary
Zachary reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 15, and has been recorded 553,281 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 216th. About 534,000 Zacharys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zachary boys named Zachary
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 553,281
- Estimated living today
- 534,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 15th
- Rank in 2025
- 216th
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 1,529 / 551,752
How old the living Zacharys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 553,281 babies given the name since 1900, about 534,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 81,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zacharys
- Zachary Taylor (1784–1850)president of the United States from 1849 to 1850
- Zachary (679–752)pope
- Zachary Quinto (born 1977)American actor and film producer
- Zachary Levi (born 1980)American actor
- Zachary Gordon (born 1998)American actor
- Zachary Knighton (born 1978)American actor
- Zachary Scott (1914–1965)American actor
- Zachary Donohue (born 1991)American ice dancer
People named Zachary with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zachary is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zachary is most concentrated in Alaska (2.0×), New Hampshire (1.9×), Nevada (1.7×), Utah (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Zachary peaked:
Zachary elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Zachary | 30,065 | 39th |
| New Zealand boys | Zachary | 2,781 | 51st |
| France boys | Zachary | 2,650 | 455th |
| Scotland boys | Zachary | 1,155 | 96th |
| Ireland boys | Zachary | 767 | 163rd |
| Poland boys | Zachary | 638 birth registrations | 148th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Zachary | 514 | 87th |
| Switzerland boys | Zachary | 246 | 438th |
| Belgium boys | Zachary | 230 | 651st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zachary: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Zachary | 55 | 0.004% | 769th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Zachary | 190 | 0.044% | 142nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Zachary | 1 | 0.002% | 193rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Zachary is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.06% of children were given it – 97 of them.
Zachary: rank by region
In 2021, Zachary was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Zachary | 520 | 5 |
In 2025, Zachary was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Zachary | 132 | 9 |
| Mazowieckie | Zachary | 164 | 10 |
| Pomorskie | Zachary | 161 | 4 |
| Śląskie | Zachary | 138 | 8 |
| Wielkopolskie | Zachary | 248 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Zachary among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Zachary | 75 | 104 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Zachary against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.