Zakary
Zakary is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 686th, in 2002.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2002266 births
- Best rank
- #686in 2002
- Since 1970
- 5,595people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,595 boys have been named Zakary in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 266 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 38%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Zakary was the 686th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Zakary
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dashawnpeak 1994
- Zackarypeak 2001
- Treypeak 1999
- Skylorpeak 1998
- Jariuspeak 2000
- Dallinpeak 2002
- Devenpeak 2000
- Traveonpeak 2003
Other spellings in the data
- Zachary551,618 ever
- Zackary31,469 ever
- Zakari2,512 ever
- Zakkary1,200 ever
- Zacharie1,145 ever
- Zacary1,137 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.