Fun Facts About the Name Zakary
- More than 5 thousand babies named Zakary: U.S. records list 5,613 babies given the name Zakary from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Zakary Mean?
Zakary is a spelling variant of Zachary, the English form of a Hebrew name meaning "the Lord has remembered." The Hebrew name is Zekharyah (זְכַרְיָה), formed from the verb zakhar, "to remember," and Yah, a shortened form of the divine name YHWH. Its literal sense is "Yahweh has remembered," which is customarily rendered in English as "the Lord has remembered."
Zakary has no separate meaning of its own. It represents the same Hebrew name as Zachary, differing only in spelling: the -ch- of Zachary, which already stands for the sound of k, is written as -k-.
Zakary Name History & Origins
The name goes back to the Hebrew Zekharyah, borne in the Hebrew Bible by several figures, most prominently the prophet Zechariah and the priest Zechariah, father of John the Baptist in the Gospel of Luke. In the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures the name appears as Zacharias (Ζαχαρίας), and from Greek it passed into Latin as Zacharias. English Bibles kept Zacharias for the New Testament figure and used Zechariah or Zachariah in the Old Testament, while the ordinary English given name settled into the form Zachary.
Zakary belongs to a later group of English respellings in which a traditional letter combination is replaced with a more plainly phonetic one. Here the -ch- of Zachary is rewritten as -k-, and the final -y matches the usual English ending of the parent form. The underlying name is shared across languages in forms such as Greek Zacharias, Latin Zacharias, and Arabic Zakariyya, and in transliterations such as Zakaria; Zakary is an English spelling that appears alongside Zachary rather than a distinct name with its own line of descent.
How Popular is the Name Zakary?
Zakary recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2002. Its best rank was #686 in 2002.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,389 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2024 | #4,686 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2023 | #3,874 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2022 | #4,296 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2021 | #3,240 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 2020 | #3,272 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2019 | #3,343 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2018 | #3,051 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2017 | #2,268 | 59 | 0.0032% |
| 2016 | #2,516 | 51 | 0.0027% |
| 2015 | #1,908 | 77 | 0.0040% |
| 2014 | #1,654 | 94 | 0.0049% |
| 2013 | #1,527 | 106 | 0.0056% |
| 2012 | #1,326 | 129 | 0.0068% |
| 2011 | #1,358 | 125 | 0.0066% |
| 2010 | #1,347 | 127 | 0.0066% |
| 2009 | #1,152 | 159 | 0.0080% |
| 2008 | #1,036 | 184 | 0.0090% |
| 2007 | #1,087 | 169 | 0.0081% |
| 2006 | #888 | 222 | 0.0108% |
| 2005 | #895 | 202 | 0.0101% |
| 2004 | #848 | 210 | 0.0106% |
| 2003 | #751 | 239 | 0.0121% |
| 2002 | #686 | 266 | 0.0137% |
| 2001 | #761 | 226 | 0.0116% |
| 2000 | #734 | 234 | 0.0119% |
| 1999 | #769 | 208 | 0.0108% |
| 1998 | #768 | 207 | 0.0108% |
| 1997 | #762 | 196 | 0.0104% |
| 1996 | #784 | 187 | 0.0099% |
| 1995 | #774 | 193 | 0.0101% |
| 1994 | #741 | 201 | 0.0104% |
| 1993 | #711 | 213 | 0.0109% |
| 1992 | #714 | 209 | 0.0105% |
| 1991 | #929 | 131 | 0.0065% |
| 1990 | #886 | 136 | 0.0066% |
| 1989 | #1,023 | 102 | 0.0051% |
| 1988 | #1,057 | 89 | 0.0046% |
| 1987 | #1,217 | 64 | 0.0034% |
| 1986 | #1,438 | 49 | 0.0027% |
| 1985 | #1,543 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 1984 | #1,629 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 1983 | #2,339 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1982 | #1,813 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 1981 | #2,037 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1979 | #1,865 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 1978 | #2,668 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1977 | #2,789 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 1976 | #2,707 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 1975 | #3,426 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1974 | #4,186 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1973 | #4,502 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1972 | #3,619 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1971 | #3,656 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1970 | #4,720 | 6 | 0.0003% |
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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