Zachary
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Biblical Zacharias via Hebrew Zecharya, literally ‘remember god’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zækəɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zachary is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 15th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 764(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 328as Zakaria
- GEGeorgia1 in 1.3Kas ზაქარია
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 Zachary 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)
- #768 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 589 (measured from records)
- 1 in 764 (inferred from the name graph)
435,262 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zakaria in MA Morocco, DZ Algeria, TZ Tanzania, Zaqaria in GE Georgia and Jakaria in BD Bangladesh.
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(measured from records)
From the Biblical Zacharias via Hebrew Zecharya, literally ‘remember god’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zachary, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zachary 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 | #307 | 435,262 | 1 in 764 | 435K | Zachary | 589 |
| MA Morocco | #15 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | — | Zakaria | 138 |
| BD Bangladesh | #507 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Jakaria | 81 |
| DZ Algeria | #90 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Zakaria | 86 |
| TZ Tanzania | #221 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Zakaria | 30 |
| GE Georgia | #215 | 2,998as ზაქარია | 1 in 1.3K | 3K | Zaqaria | 19 |
435,262 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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Zachary is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English vernacular form of the New Testament Greek name Zacharias, a form of Hebrew Zechariah ‘God has remembered’. This was the name of the father of John the Baptist, who underwent a temporary period of dumbness for his lack of faith (Luke 1), and of a more obscure figure, Zacharias son of Barachias, who was slain ‘between the temple and the altar’ (Matthew 23:35;
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A male given name from Hebrew, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.
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)
- Zachary Taylorb. 1784USpresident of the United States from 1849 to 1850
- Zachary Scottb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914-1965)
- Samuel Z. Arkoffb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican producer of B movies (1918–2001)
- Zack Snyderb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker (born 1966)
- Zach Galifianakisb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
- Zachary Quintob. 1977USAmerican actor and film producer
- Zachary Levib. 1980USAmerican actor (born 1980)
- Zac Efronb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and singer (born 1987)
- Zach Kingb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker, voice actor and Internet personality
- Zachary Gordonb. 1998USAmerican actor (born 1998)
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 80 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 435K | #106 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 637 | #106 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Zachary?
- In the etymology graph, Zekeriya, Zakaria and Zachery are forms of the same name in other languages; Zach and Zack are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Zachary a male or female name?
- Zachary 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.
- What does the name Zachary mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Biblical Zacharias via Hebrew Zecharya, literally ‘remember god’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Zachary?
- A machine transcription gives /zækəɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Zachary?
- In the United States, the national register counted 435,262 people named Zachary in 2020, about 1 in 764 residents.
- How common is Zachary compared with other names?
- In the United States, Zachary is the 307th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Zachary have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 435 thousand people named Zachary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zachary.
- Where is Zachary most common?
- Zachary is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 764 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Zachary?
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/zacharyThe 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, “Zachary” — the 307th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.