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Zachary

Pronounced /ˈzækəɹi/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1988 · #1354
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:1,835 in 2024 (#194)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Zachary in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1988 with 105 babies, ranked #1354.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1960.
  • 1,529 girls have been named Zachary since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Zachary per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 137 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 948 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 395 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 44 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From clipped forms of Zachariah and Zacharias + -y, from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”) via Latin Zacharias and Koine Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías). As an American city, named after the farmer Darel Zachary who sold the land for a local depot on the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1880s. Doublet of Zach, Zacharias, Zachariah, Zechariah, Zakariya, and Jakariya.

  • A male given name from Hebrew.
  • A surname transferred from the given name.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈzækəɹi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Zachary, CC BY-SA 4.0.