Zakary
#5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 266 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,613since 1970
Zakary over time
Rank among boys' names. Zakary has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #4,571 | 22 |
| 2023 | #3,802 | 29 |
| 2022 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #2,994 | 39 |
| 2017 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #2,477 | 51 |
| 2015 | #1,895 | 77 |
| 2014 | #1,641 | 94 |
| 2013 | #1,520 | 106 |
| 2012 | #1,322 | 129 |
| 2011 | #1,350 | 125 |
| 2010 | #1,341 | 127 |
| 2009 | #1,148 | 159 |
| 2008 | #1,031 | 184 |
| 2007 | #1,083 | 169 |
| 2006 | #888 | 222 |
| 2005 | #892 | 202 |
| 2004 | #846 | 210 |
| 2003 | #750 | 239 |
| 2002 | #684 | 266 |
| 2001 | #759 | 226 |
| 2000 | #732 | 234 |
| 1999 | #767 | 208 |
| 1998 | #767 | 207 |
| 1997 | #758 | 196 |
| 1996 | #780 | 187 |
| 1995 | #772 | 193 |
| 1994 | #741 | 201 |
| 1993 | #709 | 213 |
| 1992 | #709 | 209 |
| 1991 | #920 | 131 |
| 1990 | #881 | 136 |
| 1989 | #1,016 | 102 |
| 1988 | #1,047 | 89 |
| 1987 | #1,202 | 64 |
| 1986 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #1,524 | 43 |
| 1984 | #1,606 | 37 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #1,833 | 30 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zakary! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1974, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Zakary is popular in 1981
No state had 5 or more boys named Zakary in 1981, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zakary
- 637 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #5,208)
- 2,006 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #5,208)
- 3,313 spots since 2015 (#1,895 → #5,208)
- Biggest jump: 211 spots in 1992 (#920 → #709)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 2007 (#888 → #1,083)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2002 at #684 (266 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1990–2006
- Highest: 1 in 7,299 boys born in 2002 were named Zakary (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.6% of all boys named Zakary (2,111) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 129 | #1,833 (1979) | #3,175 |
| 1980s | 484 | #1,016 (1989) | #1,639 |
| 1990s | 1,881 | #709 (1993) | #780 |
| 2000s | 2,111 | #684 (2002) | #881 |
| 2010s | 842 | #1,322 (2012) | #2,004 |
| 2020s | 166 | #3,180 (2021) | #4,025 |
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.
Zakary in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 66,340 of them was named Zakary, which outranked 72.6% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,942Wm28
- #1,942Yousef28
- #1,942Zach28
- #1,996Zakary27
- #1,996Ahren27
- #1,996Anastacio27
- #1,996Broc27
- #2,038Alford26
- #2,038Ameer26
- #2,038Antwoine26
Tied with 41 names at #1,996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.