# Zachary (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zachary/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “yahweh has remembered” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈzækəɹi/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Zachariah, Zacharias, Zachery, Zackary, Zackery, Zac, Zak, Zack, Zachry, Zach |
| US babies named this | 553,281 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 551,752 / 1,529 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 30,065, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 20 | 6,242 |
| 2006 | 21 | 6,348 |
| 2007 | 11 | 10,804 |
| 2008 | 12 | 10,066 |
| 2009 | 10 | 11,438 |
| 2010 | 10 | 11,223 |
| 2011 | 7 | 14,794 |
| 2012 | 8 | 13,438 |
| 2013 | 6 | 16,474 |
| 2014 | 8 | 13,039 |
| 2015 | 5 | 19,044 |
| 2016 | 9 | 11,754 |
| 2017 | 5 | 18,371 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,494 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17,700 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6,811 | 64 |
| 2012 | 6,263 | 67 |
| 2013 | 5,775 | 73 |
| 2014 | 5,188 | 82 |
| 2015 | 4,866 | 88 |
| 2016 | 4,576 | 89 |
| 2017 | 3,822 | 103 |
| 2018 | 3,577 | 107 |
| 2019 | 3,084 | 124 |
| 2020 | 2,729 | 135 |
| 2021 | 2,598 | 144 |
| 2022 | 2,263 | 165 |
| 2023 | 2,128 | 171 |
| 2024 | 1,844 | 194 |
| 2025 | 1,646 | 216 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,664 | 45 |
| 2012 | 1,722 | 40 |
| 2013 | 1,780 | 39 |
| 2014 | 1,670 | 40 |
| 2015 | 1,644 | 41 |
| 2016 | 1,670 | 39 |
| 2017 | 1,385 | 45 |
| 2018 | 1,265 | 54 |
| 2019 | 1,295 | 50 |
| 2020 | 1,155 | 56 |
| 2021 | 1,146 | 55 |
| 2022 | 994 | 59 |
| 2023 | 889 | 61 |
| 2024 | 760 | 69 |
| 2025 | 703 | 75 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: زكريّا
- Armenian: Զաքար, Զաքարիա
- Bulgarian: Захария
- Catalan: Zacaries
- Chinese: 扎卡里
- Czech: Zachariáš
- Danish: Zakarias
- Dutch: Zacharias
- Esperanto: Zeĥarja
- Estonian: Sakarja
- Finnish: Sakari
- French: Zacharie
- Georgian: ზაქარი, ზაქარია
- German: Zacharias
- Greek: Ζαχαρίας
- Hebrew: זכריה
- Hindi: जकर्याह
- Hungarian: Zakariás
- Icelandic: Zakarías
- Indonesian: Zakharia

## People named Zachary

- Zachary Quinto, American actor and film producer
- Zachary Levi, American actor (born 1980)
- Zachary Gordon, American actor (born 1998)
- Zachary Knighton, American actor
- Zachary Scott, American actor (1914-1965)
- Zachary Donohue, American ice dancer
- Zachary Abel, American television actor
- Zachary Brault-Guillard, Canadian association football player
- Zachary Bell, Canadian racing cyclist
- Zachary Booth, American actor
- Zachary Stevens, American singer
- John Zachary Young, British zoologist, neurophysiologist, professor of anatomy and author (1907-1997)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.