Zach

What Zach means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #426 vs #2,480 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zach?

US: Falling: down from #1983 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #265 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 75 boys got the name (#1982 that year). First in the US records in 1913.

How common

• About 1 in 31,631 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,893 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 854 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 IL (0.12 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.09 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.06 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Zach is #2480 in the US and #426 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 Zach were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Zac
• Zack
• Zak

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Zach

Boys

• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025
• Ashton#197“ash (tree species) + enclosure, settlement”^*
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Carson#124“rock”^*
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Nevaeh#165From the word “heaven”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Ella#29Short form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*

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 Zach’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.