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Zachary
Pronounced /ˈzækəɹi/
Rank in 2024
#194
Born in 2024
1,835
Peak year
1993 · #15
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,835 boys were named Zachary, about 1 in every 935.
- It peaked in 1993 with 25,537 babies, ranked #15.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 550,089 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.9Gen X1965–80
- 8.6Millennials1981–96
- 6.9Gen Z1997–12
- 2.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 244 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 262 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,200 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 25,079 babies, 0.92 per 1,000. Millennials: 260,375 babies, 8.55 per 1,000. Gen Z: 217,502 babies, 6.93 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 42,421 babies, 1.95 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.