Meaning not yet researched.
Zakari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 206 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,030 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,030 in 2023; #1,062 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Zakari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,062 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,030.
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Zakari: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 206 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,030 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 213 (2023).
In 2025, 206 US boys were named Zakari, making it the 1,062nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 33 places from #1,095 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 198 boys named Zakari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,030, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 213. For comparison, it was #2,233 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakari in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 6 babies. In all, 2,729 US babies have been given the name, 9.4% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,195 babies named Zakari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,664 US boys were named Zakari; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 213. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,292 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zakari ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #474 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zackary (31,600 babies since 1880), Zakary (5,613 babies since 1880), Zakaria (3,349 babies since 1880) and Zakariya (2,558 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zacarri, Zacori and Sacari 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: Zacarri (94), Zacori (10), Sacari (10), Sakori (5).
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 Zakari 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 11 | #474 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #614 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #667 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #677 | #983 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #695 | — |
| Tennessee | 10 | #718 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #742 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #762 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #880 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #901 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #909 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #956 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #962 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,094 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,167 | #2,386 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,263 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,278 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,408 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,811 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,900 | 206 | #1,062 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,933 | 198 | #1,095 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,628 | 213 | #1,030 |
| 2022 | 14 | #8,021 | 184 | #1,142 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,177 | 147 | #1,298 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,911 | 172 | #1,141 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,720 | 178 | #1,111 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,779 | 165 | #1,167 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,922 | 106 | #1,552 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,833 | 95 | #1,674 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,137 | 61 | #2,233 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,954 | 46 | #2,659 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,570 | 37 | #3,059 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,865 | 38 | #3,058 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,134 | 59 | #2,231 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,770 | 53 | #2,401 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,410 | 36 | #3,222 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,797 | 48 | #2,629 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,449 | 41 | #2,919 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,576 | 23 | #4,221 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,707 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,157 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,974 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,346 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,493 | 31 | #2,987 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,142 | 23 | #3,639 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #3,029 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,845 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,094 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,405 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,790 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,468 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,500 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,997 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,637 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,375 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,807 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,746 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,452 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,714 |
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).