Meaning not yet researched.
Zakary: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #686 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #686 in 2002; #5,389 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zakary in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,389 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #686.
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Zakary: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #686 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 266 (2002).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Zakary, making it the 5,389th most common boys’ name of the year, down 692 places from #4,697 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 22 boys named Zakary in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #686, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 266. For comparison, it was #1,909 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakary in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 5,613 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,111 babies named Zakary.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 350 US boys were named Zakary; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zackary (31,600 babies since 1880), Zackery (17,753 babies since 1880), Zakaria (3,349 babies since 1880) and Zakari (2,729 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zakariye, Zakarie and Zakaree 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: Zakariye (232), Zakarie (196), Zakaree (82), Zakarri (80), Zakarii (46), Zakaryah (40), Zakori (15).
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 Zakary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 18 | #5,389 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,697 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,878 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,299 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,241 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,273 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,345 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,053 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,269 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,516 |
| 2015 | — | — | 77 | #1,909 |
| 2014 | — | — | 94 | #1,654 |
| 2013 | — | — | 106 | #1,527 |
| 2012 | — | — | 129 | #1,327 |
| 2011 | — | — | 125 | #1,358 |
| 2010 | — | — | 127 | #1,348 |
| 2009 | — | — | 159 | #1,152 |
| 2008 | — | — | 184 | #1,036 |
| 2007 | — | — | 169 | #1,087 |
| 2006 | — | — | 222 | #888 |
| 2005 | — | — | 202 | #895 |
| 2004 | — | — | 210 | #848 |
| 2003 | — | — | 239 | #751 |
| 2002 | — | — | 266 | #686 |
| 2001 | — | — | 226 | #761 |
| 2000 | — | — | 234 | #734 |
| 1999 | — | — | 208 | #770 |
| 1998 | — | — | 207 | #768 |
| 1997 | — | — | 196 | #762 |
| 1996 | — | — | 187 | #784 |
| 1995 | — | — | 193 | #774 |
| 1994 | — | — | 201 | #741 |
| 1993 | — | — | 213 | #711 |
| 1992 | — | — | 209 | #714 |
| 1991 | — | — | 131 | #929 |
| 1990 | — | — | 136 | #886 |
| 1989 | — | — | 102 | #1,023 |
| 1988 | — | — | 89 | #1,057 |
| 1987 | — | — | 64 | #1,217 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,438 |
| 1985 | — | — | 43 | #1,543 |
| 1984 | — | — | 37 | #1,629 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,339 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,814 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,037 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,616 |
| 1979 | — | — | 30 | #1,865 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,668 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,789 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,708 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,426 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,185 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,502 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,621 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,656 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,720 |
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).