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Zach

#2,515 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Zachary

Zach has been given to 2,804 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #2,515 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Zach, 2025

1 in 61,400

Zach over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zach: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Zachary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zach means

Zach is a short form of Zachary.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zach → Zachary → Zacharias. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh has remembered”, recorded in English with the source elements Zəḵaryā.

Origin, language, and formation

Zach is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zachary and Zachariah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Zach is pronounced /zæk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,804 boys were recorded with the name Zach between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,602 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,390 in 2020 to #2,515 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,000 in 2015 to #2,515 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zach?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,515
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zach sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zach. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zachs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zach was born before 2004 — so the typical Zach is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,748
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Choose a decade

2000s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (729).

Is Zach rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−72
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−125
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−515
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.8%
Peak was 2007 (86)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,602
1972

Spellings of Zach

Zach is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 65.8% against Zach's 0.24%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zach is used

Across 1910–2025, Zach was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 117,271 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zach has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zach around the world

Where Zach ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #426
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2025
    #178
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #107
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1993–2025
    #94
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,263
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #679
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #202
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zach

People whose public names include Zach, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zach in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zach. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZacZack

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zach by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,515
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 125
Best rank ever
#1,602
1972
Peak year
2007
86 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,804
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Zach

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Zach

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zach, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zach

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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