Meaning not yet researched.
Zackary: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #232 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #232 in 1994; #1,513 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zackary in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,513 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #232.
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Zackary: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 boys in 2025. Peak: #232 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 1,386 (2001).
In 2025, 116 US boys were named Zackary, making it the 1,513th most common boys’ name of the year, down 97 places from #1,416 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 131 boys named Zackary in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #232, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,386, in 2001. For comparison, it was #754 in 2015 and #4,193 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zackary in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 31,600 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 11,382 babies named Zackary.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,899 US boys were named Zackary; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 314. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,725 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zackary ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #812 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zackery (17,753 babies since 1880), Zakary (5,613 babies since 1880), Zakari (2,729 babies since 1880) and Zakery (1,339 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zackory, Zackaria and Zakkery 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: Zackory (461), Zackaria (382), Zakkery (312), Zaccary (234), Zackarie (217), Zackari (208), Zahkari (74), Zakarya (72), Zacory (66), Zackarey (63), Zackariya (55), Zaccari (30), and more.
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 Zackary in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #812 | #535 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #922 | #823 |
| Missouri | 5 | #991 | #657 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,225 | #747 |
| New York | 9 | #1,291 | #743 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,411 | #760 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,474 | #1,031 |
| California | 11 | #1,580 | #613 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 116 | #1,513 |
| 2024 | — | — | 131 | #1,416 |
| 2023 | — | — | 146 | #1,314 |
| 2022 | — | — | 159 | #1,244 |
| 2021 | — | — | 205 | #1,049 |
| 2020 | — | — | 177 | #1,118 |
| 2019 | — | — | 191 | #1,071 |
| 2018 | — | — | 208 | #997 |
| 2017 | — | — | 252 | #867 |
| 2016 | — | — | 314 | #772 |
| 2015 | — | — | 321 | #754 |
| 2014 | — | — | 435 | #616 |
| 2013 | — | — | 467 | #565 |
| 2012 | — | — | 523 | #507 |
| 2011 | — | — | 600 | #451 |
| 2010 | — | — | 696 | #406 |
| 2009 | — | — | 834 | #365 |
| 2008 | — | — | 870 | #359 |
| 2007 | — | — | 950 | #338 |
| 2006 | — | — | 998 | #321 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,066 | #310 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,105 | #288 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,169 | #268 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,275 | #254 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,386 | #244 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,351 | #250 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,359 | #238 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,345 | #235 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,203 | #247 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,239 | #240 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,192 | #243 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,274 | #232 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,213 | #239 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,727 | 1,030 | #278 |
| 1991 | — | — | 777 | #325 |
| 1990 | — | — | 743 | #333 |
| 1989 | — | — | 680 | #339 |
| 1988 | — | — | 587 | #355 |
| 1987 | — | — | 460 | #406 |
| 1986 | — | — | 364 | #460 |
| 1985 | — | — | 340 | #472 |
| 1984 | — | — | 264 | #528 |
| 1983 | — | — | 227 | #560 |
| 1982 | — | — | 173 | #664 |
| 1981 | — | — | 146 | #716 |
| 1980 | — | — | 133 | #762 |
| 1979 | — | — | 120 | #793 |
| 1978 | — | — | 85 | #944 |
| 1977 | — | — | 86 | #920 |
| 1976 | — | — | 77 | #956 |
| 1975 | — | — | 50 | #1,207 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,310 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,375 |
| 1972 | — | — | 33 | #1,507 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,636 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,292 |
| 1969 | — | — | 22 | #1,809 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #2,029 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,609 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,890 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,083 |
| 1964 | — | — | 19 | #1,899 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,694 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,960 |
| 1961 | — | — | 20 | #1,875 |
| 1960 | — | — | 20 | #1,857 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,198 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #3,031 |
| 1957 | — | — | 20 | #1,836 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,261 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #2,046 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,447 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,957 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,678 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,709 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,193 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,297 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,981 |
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).