Zach

#2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births

Peak · boys
1972 · 30 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,804
since 1913

Zach over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zach has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #1,566, 1972boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,48054
2024#2,41857
2023#2,24463
2022#2,37959
2021#1,98275
2020#2,36656
2019#2,22862
2018#2,14765
2017#2,63747
2016#2,93540
2015#1,98373
2014#2,08267
2013#1,90374
2012#2,13263
2011#1,94771
2010#2,28756
2009#1,92574
2008#1,76085
2007#1,72886
2006#1,76978
2005#1,65981
2004#1,70175
2003#1,68773
2002#1,77265
2001#1,93556
2000#1,87556
1999#1,99548
1998#2,78229
1997#2,09642
1996#2,44132
1995#2,50030
1994#2,12338
1993#1,96941
1992#1,75048
1991#2,34430
1990#2,04936
1989#2,10633
1988#2,43724
1987#1,70939
1986#1,79134
1985#1,61439
1984#1,93328
1983#1,68734
1982#1,77432
1981#1,94228
1980#2,72917
1979#1,59836
1978#2,27920
1977#1,85827
1976#2,24520
1975#1,83526
1974#2,05021
1973#1,58630
1972#1,56630
1971#2,55814
1970#2,50914
1969#3,9356
1968#2,73510
1967#2,7609
1966—
1965#2,9828
1964#2,8549
1963—
1962#3,0418
1961#2,24214
1960#2,53511
1959#3,0378
1958#2,50611
1957#3,2577
1956#2,49711
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five boys were named Zach! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1913–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Zach is popular in 1957

No state had 5 or more boys named Zach in 1957, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zach
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 62 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,480)
  • 114 spots since 2020 (#2,366 → #2,480)
  • 497 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #2,480)
Rise & fade · boys
59 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1972 at #1,566 (30 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 23,326
  • Highest: 1 in 23,326 boys born in 2021 were named Zach (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,566 in 1972, was only 1 in 54,054 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 26.0% of all boys named Zach (729) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s23#2,821 (1913)#3,463
1920s13#3,408 (1925)#3,612
1930s10#3,534 (1938)#3,588
1940s10#3,338 (1945)#3,449
1950s42#2,497 (1956)#3,006
1960s75#2,242 (1961)#2,886
1970s238#1,566 (1972)#2,008
1980s308#1,614 (1985)#1,972
1990s374#1,750 (1992)#2,205
2000s729#1,659 (2005)#1,781
2010s618#1,903 (2013)#2,228
2020s364#1,982 (2021)#2,312

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zach in 1957

boys
#3,257
7 births · 1 in 308,177 boys

Top boys' names in 1957

  1. #1Michael92,781
  2. #2James84,337
  3. #3David82,403
  4. #4Robert81,765
  5. #5John79,033
  6. #6William56,852
  7. #7Mark52,841
  8. #8Richard52,446
  9. #9Thomas44,625
  10. #10Steven36,842
  11. #3,257Zach7
More about 1957

boys

2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 308,177 of them was named Zach, which outranked 28.4% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zach
  1. #3,024Winifred8
  2. #3,024Zarak8
  3. #3,024Zeno8
  4. #3,257Zach7
  5. #3,257Abbott7
  6. #3,257Abdul7
  7. #3,257Aime7
  8. #3,552Adlai6
  9. #3,552Ahmad6
  10. #3,552Aidan6

Tied with 294 names at #3,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. ↑ 714Dion#1,642 → #928
  2. ↑ 404Wes#1,317 → #913
  3. ↑ 371Antoine#1,232 → #861
  4. ↑ 340Domenick#1,335 → #995
  5. ↑ 329Mitch#868 → #539
Fallers
  1. ↓ 458Lannie#999 → #1,457
  2. ↓ 402Desi#986 → #1,388
  3. ↓ 354Gavin#924 → #1,278
  4. ↓ 317Murphy#917 → #1,234
  5. ↓ 288Eliot#897 → #1,185

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1957 →