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Zakhary

Boys' name

Transliteration of Заха́рий

Zakhary has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Zakhary, 2011

1 in 523,000

Zakhary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakhary: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Заха́рий

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakhary means

Zakhary is a transliteration of Заха́рий.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Russian Заха́рий (Zaxárij). Doublet of Zachary.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Zakhary (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Zakhary is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Заха́рий and Zachary.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Zakhary between 1992 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1992; its best national rank was #7,407 in 1992.

How common is Zakhary?

Zakhary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 271,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,214 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakhary 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 2011 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 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakhary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakharys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakhary was born before 2001 — so the typical Zakhary is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
31
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Zakhary 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (7)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,407
1992

Spellings of Zakhary

Zakhary is not the most common spelling — Zachary is, with 87.6% against Zakhary's <0.01%.

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.

Zakhary around the world

Where Zakhary 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
    2003–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1999–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zakhary by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,407
1992
Peak year
1992
7 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zakhary

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

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Sibling names for Zakhary

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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