Zach
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zach is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 13K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zach itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 511 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
43,052 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zach counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #944 | 43,052 | 1 in 7.7K | 43K | Zach | 511 |
| CN China | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Zach | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 121 | Zach | 183 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 31 | Zach | 194 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 7 | Zach | 204 |
| SE Sweden | — | 882as Zack | 1 in 12K | 882 | Zach | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | #888 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 12 | Zach | 84 |
43,052 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zach is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bar, chewy, stringy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zach Grenierb. 1954USAmerican actor
- Zach Galliganb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Zach Braffb. 1975USAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1975)
- Zach Randolphb. 1981USAmerican basketball player (born 1981)
- Zach Creggerb. 1981USAmerican actor and film director (born 1981)
- Zach Gilfordb. 1982USAmerican actor
- Zach Woodsb. 1984USAmerican actor
- Zach Roerigb. 1985USAmerican actor
- Zach Tyler Eisenb. 1993USAmerican actor and YouTuber
- Zach LaVineb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43K | #1,000 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 114 | #7,805 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 74 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 70 | #1,000 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 54 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 40 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 31 | #148 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 22 | #107 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2020 | 11 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 7 | #607 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 3 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Zach?
- In the etymology graph, Zekeriya, Zack and Zachariah are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Zachary.
- Is Zach a male or female name?
- Zach is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Zach?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,052 people named Zach in 2020, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Zach compared with other names?
- In the United States, Zach is the 944th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Zach?
- A machine transcription gives /zæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zach have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Zach, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zach.
- Where is Zach most common?
- Zach is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.7 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Zach?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zachThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zach” — the 944th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.