girls:
7 births since 1992
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
31.3k births since 1921
#651 (86th percentile)
overall:
31.3k births since 1921
#1437 (81st percentile)
The name Zackary is the #1,437 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,341 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 81.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #651 (85.8% percentile) for all time with 31,334 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1992.
Zackary first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1992 for girls). Birth data for Zackary is available in 76 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (76 years for boys and 1 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 Zackary has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zackary reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 71.1% percentile (ranked #233) with 667 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 670 births per million (ranked 71.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zackary ranks #771 for boys (15.4% percentile) with 79 births per million, which is 11.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zackary reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #857) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zackary".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Zackary. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Zackary is pronounced as ZA-ker-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZA-kuh-ree, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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