Zac

What Zac means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zac yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #444 vs #3,181 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zac?

US: Falling: down from #2145 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #177 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 84 boys got the name (#1781 that year). First in the US records in 1957.

How common

• About 1 in 46,164 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,126 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 755 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (0.13 per 1,000 boys), CA (0.05 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Zac is #3181 in the US and #444 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zac were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zack126 US · 108 E&W
• Zak12 US · 62 E&W
• Zkai6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zac

Boys

• Eli#104“ascent”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Jace#114Diminutive of Jason, meaning “I heal”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Max#180Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #48 vs #180 in 2025
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025

For a sister

• Adalynn#184Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Khloe#272Variant of Chloe, meaning “young green shoot”^*
• Juliet#274Editor’s note Down from #240 in 2015 to #274 in 2025 in the US
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Milani#288Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #664 in 2015, #288 in 2025
• Arya#158“noble, respectable”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zac’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.