Zakhari is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zachary, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zakhari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,498 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,498 in 2021; #2,881 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zakhari in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,881 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,498.
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Zakhari: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,498 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 54 (2021).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Zakhari, making it the 2,881st most common boys’ name of the year, up 909 places from #3,790 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 30 boys named Zakhari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,498, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 54. For comparison, it was #12,066 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakhari in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 8 babies. In all, 431 US babies have been given the name, 6.0% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 271 babies named Zakhari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US boys were named Zakhari; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zakhari ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,467 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880), Zacharia (1,758 babies since 1880) and Zacharie (1,150 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Zakhari 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,467 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,881 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,790 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,552 | 53 | #2,540 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,338 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,602 | 54 | #2,498 |
| 2020 | 6 | #15,038 | 38 | #3,072 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,896 |
| 2018 | 5 | #18,083 | 22 | #4,604 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,523 |
| 2016 | — | — | 11 | #7,596 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #12,066 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #12,085 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,992 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,530 | 5 | #14,316 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #7,074 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,795 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #11,017 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,574 |
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).