Zakkary
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zakkary has been given to 1,205 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1993, with 86 recorded.
Babies named Zakkary, 2024
1 in 669,000
Zakkary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zakkary?
Zakkary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zakkary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakkary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zakkarys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakkary was born before 2002 — so the typical Zakkary is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,205
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (479).
Is Zakkary 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (86)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.1% average annual change
Spellings of Zakkary
Zakkary is not the most common spelling — Zachary is, with 90.0% against Zakkary's 0.20%.
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 Zakkary is used
Across 1910–2025, Zakkary was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 527,936 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Zakkary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zakkary around the world
Where Zakkary 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 & Wales2005–2022#4,790in 2022
- Canada1992–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1997–1999#539in 1999
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.
Zakkary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zakkary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zakkary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.