Zakary
#5,387 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zakary has been given to 5,613 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #5,387 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 266 recorded.
Babies named Zakary, 2025
1 in 184,000
Zakary over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zakary?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 94,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,387
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zakary sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zakarys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakary was born before 2001 — so the typical Zakary is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,613
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (2,111).
Is Zakary 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
- −694
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,116
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,478
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.23×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.8%
- Peak was 2002 (266)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zakary
Zakary is not the most common spelling — Zachary is, with 85.8% against Zakary's 0.87%.
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 Zakary is used
Across 1910–2025, Zakary was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 45,591 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 11,111
- 2Arizona1 in 25,000
- 3Florida1 in 25,000
- 4Idaho1 in 25,000
- 5Washington1 in 25,000
- 6California1 in 33,333
- 7Colorado1 in 33,333
- 8Michigan1 in 33,333
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. Zakary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zakary around the world
Where Zakary 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 & Wales1996–2025#2,664in 2025
- Scotland2005–2006#584in 2006
- France1985–2025#1,428in 2025
- Canada1991–2024#2,134in 2024
- South Australia1988–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zakary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zakary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Zakary
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zakary, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Zakary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.