Zack

What Zack means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #385 vs #1,425 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zack?

US: Falling: down from #1216 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #201 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1883, when 28 boys got the name (#309 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 13,556 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,518 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,034 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 (0.25 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.19 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.17 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Zack is #1425 in the US and #385 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 Zack 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

• Zac37 US · 87 E&W
• Zak12 US · 62 E&W
• Zeek18 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 Zack

Boys

• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Carson#124“rock”^*
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*

For a sister

• Valeria#162“to be healthy, to be strong”^*
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

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