Fun Facts About the Name Zachry
- 967 babies named Zachry: U.S. records list 967 babies given the name Zachry from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Zachry Mean?
Zachry is a shortened spelling of Zachary, the English form of a Hebrew name. The Hebrew Zəḵaryāh (also written Zekharyah) joins zakhar, "to remember," with Yah, a short form of the divine name YHWH. The usual translation is "the Lord has remembered," or, more literally, "Yahweh has remembered." The name reached English through the Greek Zacharias (Ζαχαρίας) and Latin Zacharias. Zachry keeps those sounds while dropping the second a, so it carries the same meaning as Zachary rather than a separate one.
Zachry Name History & Origins
The name behind Zachry is the biblical Zechariah, borne in the Hebrew Bible by a prophet and by several other figures. The Greek New Testament uses Zacharias for the father of John the Baptist, and that Greek-and-Latin form was the one carried into European languages. English settled on Zachary, and from it grew a range of shorter spellings, including Zachry, in which the vowel between ch and r is dropped. That kind of compression is ordinary in English names, and the spelling also appears as a family name. As a given name, Zachry is much less common than Zachary and is generally treated as the same name written in a shorter form.
How Popular is the Name Zachry?
Zachry has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1985. Its best rank was #1,451 in 1985.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | #9,720 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #14,049 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #9,666 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #14,019 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #10,704 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #14,191 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #8,746 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #7,073 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #6,754 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #6,610 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #5,297 | 17 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #6,215 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2004 | #4,785 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2003 | #4,614 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2002 | #3,553 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2001 | #2,796 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2000 | #3,419 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 1999 | #3,101 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 1998 | #2,710 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 1997 | #2,345 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 1996 | #2,746 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 1995 | #2,683 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 1994 | #2,306 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 1993 | #2,122 | 38 | 0.0019% |
| 1992 | #2,466 | 30 | 0.0015% |
| 1991 | #1,918 | 41 | 0.0020% |
| 1990 | #2,083 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 1989 | #1,857 | 41 | 0.0020% |
| 1988 | #1,847 | 37 | 0.0019% |
| 1987 | #1,828 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 1986 | #1,759 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1985 | #1,451 | 47 | 0.0025% |
| 1984 | #2,363 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1983 | #1,822 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 1982 | #2,205 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1981 | #2,897 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1980 | #3,096 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1979 | #2,101 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 1978 | #2,204 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 1977 | #3,036 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 1976 | #2,600 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 1973 | #4,051 | 8 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Zachry Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have aspiration and inspiration, hope and guidance. Since you are intuitive and perceptive and you understand human nature. You have the power to achieve. Diplomacy and discretion make you a good mediator. You are inspired, introspective, and have a good understanding of the human heart. You can have the ability to commercialize your artistic talents successfully. You are often a mystery to others and to yourself. You are always reaching for something higher, without exactly knowing what that "higher" is. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
You desire to inspire and lead, to control other's affairs. You are giving, courageous and bold, action oriented,energetic and strong willed. You want to make a difference in the world, and this attitude often attracts you to cultural interests, politics, social issues, and the cultivation of your creative talents.
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