Meaning not yet researched.
Zacary: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,641 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,641 in 1999. No US babies were recorded with the name Zacary in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,641 in 1999.
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Zacary: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,641 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 67 (2000).
Fewer than five US boys were named Zacary in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,641, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 67, in 2000. For comparison, it was #14,001 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zacary in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 1,137 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 452 babies named Zacary.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14 US boys were named Zacary; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 8.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zackary (31,600 babies since 1880), Zackery (17,753 babies since 1880), Zakary (5,613 babies since 1880) and Zakari (2,729 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zacorey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zacorey (43).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zacary in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,314 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,641 |
| 2015 | — | — | 5 | #14,001 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,763 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,912 |
| 2012 | — | — | 23 | #4,385 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,707 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,829 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,419 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,131 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,475 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,700 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,281 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,030 |
| 2002 | — | — | 53 | #2,067 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,740 |
| 2000 | — | — | 67 | #1,712 |
| 1999 | — | — | 66 | #1,641 |
| 1998 | — | — | 53 | #1,870 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,647 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,907 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,443 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,844 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,967 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,833 |
| 1991 | — | — | 41 | #1,917 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,776 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,781 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,349 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,638 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,777 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,708 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,213 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,408 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,999 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,956 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,235 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,350 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,220 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).