girls:
1.5k births since 1960
#4218 (26th percentile)
boys:
548.2k births since 1900
#61 (99th percentile)
overall:
549.7k births since 1900
#118 (98th percentile)
The name Zachary is the #118 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 549,746 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 98.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #61 (98.7% percentile) for all time with 548,217 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #4,218 (26.2% percentile) for all time with 1,529 births since 1960.
Zachary first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1960 for girls). Birth data for Zachary is available in 113 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (113 years for boys and 50 years for girls). 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.
The name Zachary has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zachary reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 98.6% percentile (ranked #12) with 12,332 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 12,363 births per million (ranked 98.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zachary ranks #168 for boys (81.6% percentile) with 1,153 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zachary reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 12.4% percentile (ranked #708) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 55 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zachary".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zachary is pronounced as ZA-ker-ee, which has 3 syllables.
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