Zackary

Where Zackary comes from

The dictionaries list Zackary as a given name — alternative form of Zachary, a male given name from Hebrew — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1921
    First appearance
    #4,322 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Zackary Wright born
    American basketball player
  3. 1994
    Peak, #232
    1,274 babies named Zackary — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2006
    Zackary Arthur born
    American actor
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #451.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Zachary, a male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Zackary Arthur · American actor, born 2006
  • Zackary Wright · American basketball player, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.