Meaning not yet researched.
Zach: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,602 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,602 in 1972; #2,515 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zach in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,515 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,602.
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Zach: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,602 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 86 (2007).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Zach, making it the 2,515th most common boys’ name of the year, down 72 places from #2,443 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 57 boys named Zach in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,602, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,000 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zach in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 2,804 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 729 babies named Zach.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 578 US boys were named Zach; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zach ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,277 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zack (9,012 babies since 1880) and Zac (1,600 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sache are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Zack and Zak.
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: Sache (62).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 6 | #1,277 | #1,182 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,349 | #1,530 |
| New York | 5 | #2,037 | #2,091 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,274 | #2,383 |
| California | 6 | #2,462 | #1,753 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,515 |
| 2024 | — | — | 57 | #2,443 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,276 |
| 2022 | — | — | 59 | #2,406 |
| 2021 | — | — | 75 | #1,999 |
| 2020 | — | — | 56 | #2,391 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,263 |
| 2018 | — | — | 65 | #2,166 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,671 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,991 |
| 2015 | — | — | 73 | #2,000 |
| 2014 | — | — | 67 | #2,096 |
| 2013 | — | — | 74 | #1,914 |
| 2012 | — | — | 63 | #2,153 |
| 2011 | — | — | 71 | #1,967 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,323 |
| 2009 | — | — | 74 | #1,941 |
| 2008 | — | — | 85 | #1,774 |
| 2007 | — | — | 86 | #1,740 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,789 |
| 2005 | — | — | 81 | #1,673 |
| 2004 | — | — | 75 | #1,717 |
| 2003 | — | — | 73 | #1,701 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,791 |
| 2001 | — | — | 56 | #1,959 |
| 2000 | — | — | 56 | #1,893 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #2,022 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,850 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,125 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,481 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,555 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,180 |
| 1993 | — | — | 41 | #2,006 |
| 1992 | — | — | 48 | #1,777 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,405 |
| 1990 | — | — | 36 | #2,083 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,152 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,507 |
| 1987 | — | — | 39 | #1,733 |
| 1986 | — | — | 34 | #1,836 |
| 1985 | — | — | 39 | #1,643 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,978 |
| 1983 | — | — | 34 | #1,709 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,813 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,995 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,829 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,632 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,374 |
| 1977 | — | — | 27 | #1,903 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,327 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,883 |
| 1974 | — | — | 21 | #2,128 |
| 1973 | — | — | 30 | #1,611 |
| 1972 | — | — | 30 | #1,602 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,683 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,620 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,401 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,905 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,983 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,242 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #3,049 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,304 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,321 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,683 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,289 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,641 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,627 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,255 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,781 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #4,043 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #4,031 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,152 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,740 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,281 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,809 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,214 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,527 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,258 |
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).