Zachary

What Zachary means

Means “Yahweh has remembered”

From clipped forms of Zachariah and Zacharias + -y, from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”) via Latin Zacharias and Koine Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías).

Source: Wiktionary, “Zachary” (revision 93953793), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Zachary?

US: Falling: down from #88 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #41 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1993, when 25,538 boys got the name (#15 that year). First in the US records in 1900.

How common

• About 1 in 1,038 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 387 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 561 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 DE (2.71 per 1,000 boys), NH (2.44 per 1,000 boys), AK (2.2 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Zachary is #216 in the US and #75 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 Zachary 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

• Zachery41 US · 8 E&W
• Zachari9 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.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Zachariah
• Zacharias
• Zachery
• Zackary
• Zackery
• Zac
• Zak
• Zack

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Zachary

Boys

• Nicholas#112“victory + people”^*
• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*
• Andrew#73“manly”^*
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Mathew#973Variant of Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Joshua#66“to save”^*

For a sister

• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Rebekah#884“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Kathryn#729Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zachary’s. Rank is US 2025.