How rare is the name Zachery?

22,042 people in the United States have the first name Zachery, about 1 in 13,703. It ranks #1,508 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ZACHERY

#1,508

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
22,042
About
1 in 13,703
This common or more
75.2%
Who bears it

Of the 22,042 people named Zachery, 80.9% reported their origin as White, 6% as Black and 6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Zachery peaked in 1993, when 1,903 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19482025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
1,903
In 2025*
41 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 29,874 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Zachery by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #416. The largest share of babies named Zachery, 53.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#10,74511
1950s#4,370167
1960s#3,308329
1970s#1,971993
1980s#7725,403
1990s#41614,599
2000s#8686,605
2010s#2,7261,471
2020s#5,691296
Baby boom 1946–641.1%
Generation X 1965–804.6%
Millennials 1981–9653.4%
Generation Z 1997–1237.5%
2013 and later3.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Zachery is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Zachery has been most common in Utah (1.9×), Washington (1.8×), and Colorado (1.6×), and least common in New Jersey (0.38×).

27,225 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Zachery ranks #16,578 of 156,621, with 1,681 people. See Zachery as a last name

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