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Zakary

Zakary is a boy's name that peaked in 2002, when it was the 684th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 5,500 Zakarys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Zakary

By the numbers

Total US births
5,613
Estimated living today
5,500
Median age today
24
Peak year
2002
Best rank
684th
Rank in 2025
5,208th
First recorded
1970

How old the living Zakarys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,613 babies given the name since 1970, about 5,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Zakary is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zakary is most concentrated in Utah (4.6×), Arizona (2.4×), Florida (2.3×), Washington (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2002

The most popular boys’ names the year Zakary peaked:

All the names of 2002

Zakary elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Zakary 870 794th
England and Wales boys Zakary 556 767th
Belgium boys Zakary 10 1,363rd
Scotland boys Zakary 6 535th

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.

Zakary: rank by region

In 2015, Zakary was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Zakary 495 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.

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Zakary against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.