# Zak (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zak/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,608 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,608 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10,050, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,796 |
| 2012 | 42 | 2,868 |
| 2013 | 48 | 2,561 |
| 2014 | 47 | 2,620 |
| 2015 | 41 | 2,918 |
| 2016 | 34 | 3,357 |
| 2017 | 39 | 3,069 |
| 2018 | 38 | 3,102 |
| 2019 | 32 | 3,568 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,695 |
| 2021 | 39 | 3,119 |
| 2022 | 25 | 4,298 |
| 2023 | 29 | 3,877 |
| 2024 | 21 | 4,882 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7,181 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 392 | 154 |
| 2012 | 357 | 166 |
| 2013 | 313 | 180 |
| 2014 | 285 | 199 |
| 2015 | 252 | 223 |
| 2016 | 224 | 242 |
| 2017 | 152 | 321 |
| 2018 | 163 | 298 |
| 2019 | 126 | 353 |
| 2020 | 108 | 392 |
| 2021 | 96 | 433 |
| 2022 | 97 | 423 |
| 2023 | 83 | 482 |
| 2024 | 64 | 592 |
| 2025 | 62 | 611 |

## People named Zak

- Zak Penn, American screenwriter (born 1968)
- Zak Starkey, English drummer
- Zak Orth, American comedic actor
- Zak Brown, American businessman and racing driver
- Zak Whitbread, American soccer player
- Zak Dempster, Australian racing cyclist
- Zak Santiago, Canadian film actor
- Zak Spears, American pornographic actor in gay films, formerly mainstream film actor
- Zak Crawley, English cricketer
- Zak Surety, English snooker player
- Zak Irvin, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Zak DeOssie, American football player, linebacker, long snapper

## 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.