Zackary
Last seen for girls in 1992 at #10,479 · #1,509 for boys in 2025, 116 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 1,274 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 31,593since 1921
Zackary over time
Rank among boys' names. Zackary has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,509 | 116 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,413 | 131 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,309 | 146 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,237 | 159 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,046 | 205 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,111 | 177 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,066 | 191 | |
| 2018 | — | #995 | 208 | |
| 2017 | — | #864 | 252 | |
| 2016 | — | #770 | 314 | |
| 2015 | — | #752 | 321 | |
| 2014 | — | #615 | 435 | |
| 2013 | — | #565 | 467 | |
| 2012 | — | #507 | 523 | |
| 2011 | — | #451 | 600 | |
| 2010 | — | #406 | 696 | |
| 2009 | — | #365 | 834 | |
| 2008 | — | #359 | 870 | |
| 2007 | — | #338 | 950 | |
| 2006 | — | #321 | 998 | |
| 2005 | — | #310 | 1,066 | |
| 2004 | — | #288 | 1,105 | |
| 2003 | — | #268 | 1,169 | |
| 2002 | — | #254 | 1,275 | |
| 2001 | — | #244 | 1,386 | |
| 2000 | — | #249 | 1,351 | |
| 1999 | — | #238 | 1,359 | |
| 1998 | — | #234 | 1,345 | |
| 1997 | — | #247 | 1,203 | |
| 1996 | — | #240 | 1,239 | |
| 1995 | — | #243 | 1,192 | |
| 1994 | — | #232 | 1,274 | |
| 1993 | — | #239 | 1,213 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #278 | 1,030 |
| 1991 | — | #325 | 777 | |
| 1990 | — | #333 | 743 | |
| 1989 | — | #339 | 680 | |
| 1988 | — | #354 | 587 | |
| 1987 | — | #405 | 460 | |
| 1986 | — | #459 | 364 | |
| 1985 | — | #471 | 340 | |
| 1984 | — | #527 | 264 | |
| 1983 | — | #558 | 227 | |
| 1982 | — | #663 | 173 | |
| 1981 | — | #714 | 146 | |
| 1980 | — | #761 | 133 | |
| 1979 | — | #789 | 120 | |
| 1978 | — | #938 | 85 | |
| 1977 | — | #913 | 86 | |
| 1976 | — | #946 | 77 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,191 | 50 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,290 | 43 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,354 | 38 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,473 | 33 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,597 | 30 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,213 | 17 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,767 | 22 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,962 | 17 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,470 | 11 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,814 | 18 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,987 | 16 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,850 | 19 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,659 | 23 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,896 | 18 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,823 | 20 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,812 | 20 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,111 | 15 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,791 | 20 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,168 | 14 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,979 | 16 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,900 | 17 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,514 | 10 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zackary! It came in at #4,322, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1948, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zackary is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#99 · 1 in 459
- Maine#110 · 1 in 480
- Tennessee#119 · 1 in 649
- Kentucky#124 · 1 in 625
- South Dakota#133 · 1 in 521
Best ever in a state: #89 in West Virginia, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #99 | 20 | 1 in 459 |
| Maine | #110 | 12 | 1 in 480 |
| Tennessee | #119 | 53 | 1 in 649 |
| Kentucky | #124 | 37 | 1 in 625 |
| South Dakota | #133 | 8 | 1 in 521 |
| North Carolina | #139 | 56 | 1 in 819 |
| Oregon | #140 | 32 | 1 in 615 |
| New Hampshire | #142 | 8 | 1 in 774 |
| Delaware | #143 | 5 | 1 in 767 |
| Alabama | #146 | 33 | 1 in 759 |
| Arkansas | #148 | 21 | 1 in 691 |
| Oklahoma | #151 | 26 | 1 in 733 |
| Missouri | #161 | 38 | 1 in 908 |
| Idaho | #164 | 11 | 1 in 666 |
| Utah | #172 | 23 | 1 in 823 |
| Ohio | #176 | 59 | 1 in 1,192 |
| Massachusetts | #178 | 27 | 1 in 1,377 |
| Mississippi | #181 | 17 | 1 in 891 |
| Pennsylvania | #182 | 52 | 1 in 1,314 |
| Michigan | #187 | 52 | 1 in 1,146 |
| Nevada | #204 | 11 | 1 in 947 |
| Indiana | #206 | 29 | 1 in 1,297 |
| Iowa | #213 | 12 | 1 in 1,383 |
| Kansas | #213 | 13 | 1 in 1,156 |
| Minnesota | #216 | 18 | 1 in 1,579 |
| Nebraska | #216 | 8 | 1 in 1,226 |
| Georgia | #234 | 36 | 1 in 1,346 |
| Wisconsin | #241 | 16 | 1 in 1,830 |
| South Carolina | #242 | 15 | 1 in 1,310 |
| Connecticut | #245 | 10 | 1 in 1,921 |
| Florida | #246 | 56 | 1 in 1,516 |
| Washington | #275 | 20 | 1 in 1,684 |
| Colorado | #298 | 13 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Virginia | #300 | 18 | 1 in 2,168 |
| Texas | #301 | 88 | 1 in 1,771 |
| Illinois | #304 | 40 | 1 in 2,023 |
| New Jersey | #304 | 20 | 1 in 2,432 |
| California | #305 | 116 | 1 in 2,186 |
| Arizona | #312 | 17 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Louisiana | #316 | 15 | 1 in 1,779 |
| Maryland | #334 | 12 | 1 in 2,394 |
| New York | #356 | 45 | 1 in 2,639 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zackary
- 96 spots since 2024 (#1,413 → #1,509)
- 398 spots since 2020 (#1,111 → #1,509)
- 757 spots since 2015 (#752 → #1,509)
- Biggest jump: 245 spots in 1976 (#1,191 → #946)
- Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2015 (#615 → #752)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 1994 at #232 (1,274 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1976–2018
- Highest: 1 in 1,402 boys born in 2001 were named Zackary (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,725 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #232 in 1994, was only 1 in 1,517 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.0% of all boys named Zackary (11,375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,322 (1921) | #4,322 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 7 | #3,019 (1949) | #3,019 |
| 1950s | 124 | #1,791 (1957) | #2,464 |
| 1960s | 184 | #1,659 (1963) | #1,904 |
| 1970s | 579 | #789 (1979) | #1,270 |
| 1980s | 3,374 | #339 (1989) | #525 |
| 1990s | 11,375 | #232 (1994) | #261 |
| 2000s | 11,004 | #244 (2001) | #300 |
| 2010s | 4,007 | #406 (2010) | #699 |
| 2020s | 934 | #1,046 (2021) | #1,271 |
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.
Zackary in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 1,529 of them was named Zackary, which outranked 97.7% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.