Meaning not yet researched.
Zachery: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #167 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #167 in 1993; #3,035 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zachery in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,035 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #167.
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Zachery: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #167 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 1,903 (1993).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Zachery, making it the 3,035th most common boys’ name of the year, down 512 places from #2,523 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 54 boys named Zachery in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #167, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,903. For comparison, it was #1,639 in 2015 and #4,192 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zachery in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 29,874 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 14,599 babies named Zachery.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 612 US boys were named Zachery; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zacherie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Zac, Zach, Zachy, Zack, Zak and Zakk.
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: Zacherie (77).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 41 | #3,035 |
| 2024 | — | — | 54 | #2,523 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,658 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,715 |
| 2021 | — | — | 54 | #2,497 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,655 |
| 2019 | — | — | 72 | #2,041 |
| 2018 | — | — | 75 | #1,979 |
| 2017 | — | — | 83 | #1,819 |
| 2016 | — | — | 86 | #1,787 |
| 2015 | — | — | 98 | #1,639 |
| 2014 | — | — | 126 | #1,361 |
| 2013 | — | — | 165 | #1,111 |
| 2012 | — | — | 200 | #1,000 |
| 2011 | — | — | 270 | #814 |
| 2010 | — | — | 296 | #760 |
| 2009 | — | — | 395 | #636 |
| 2008 | — | — | 395 | #627 |
| 2007 | — | — | 464 | #555 |
| 2006 | — | — | 525 | #493 |
| 2005 | — | — | 626 | #427 |
| 2004 | — | — | 618 | #422 |
| 2003 | — | — | 681 | #386 |
| 2002 | — | — | 856 | #323 |
| 2001 | — | — | 895 | #309 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,150 | #277 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,219 | #258 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,291 | #242 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,321 | #233 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,374 | #219 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,533 | #198 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,729 | #180 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,903 | #167 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,747 | #184 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,450 | 1,248 | #236 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,229 | #234 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,537 | 1,024 | #253 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,387 | 871 | #270 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,983 | 687 | #311 |
| 1986 | — | — | 641 | #318 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,490 | 646 | #316 |
| 1984 | — | — | 433 | #393 |
| 1983 | — | — | 344 | #448 |
| 1982 | — | — | 290 | #499 |
| 1981 | — | — | 221 | #575 |
| 1980 | — | — | 218 | #583 |
| 1979 | — | — | 202 | #606 |
| 1978 | — | — | 152 | #680 |
| 1977 | — | — | 141 | #719 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,906 | 109 | #801 |
| 1975 | — | — | 85 | #899 |
| 1974 | — | — | 81 | #902 |
| 1973 | — | — | 69 | #977 |
| 1972 | — | — | 59 | #1,059 |
| 1971 | — | — | 49 | #1,180 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,313 |
| 1969 | — | — | 32 | #1,439 |
| 1968 | — | — | 36 | #1,281 |
| 1967 | — | — | 39 | #1,214 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,400 |
| 1965 | — | — | 31 | #1,404 |
| 1964 | — | — | 34 | #1,370 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,627 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,545 |
| 1961 | — | — | 46 | #1,178 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,551 |
| 1959 | — | — | 30 | #1,466 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,765 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,633 |
| 1956 | — | — | 25 | #1,607 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,610 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,446 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,730 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,843 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,192 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,685 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
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).