boys:
1.5k births since 1957
#3127 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1957
#6218 (20th percentile)
The name Zac is the #6,218 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,527 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 19.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,127 (31.8% percentile) for all time with 1,527 births since 1957.
Zac first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for boys in 1957). Birth data for Zac is available in 57 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Zac reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #802) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 41 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zac ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 62.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zac".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zac. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zac is pronounced as zak, which has 1 syllables.
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