Zachary

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Zakaria in MA Morocco, MY Malaysia, FR France and 12 more, Jakaria in BD Bangladesh, Zaqaria in GE Georgia and Jakariya in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zachary is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name84K records spelled Zachary84 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

  Also written Zacarias, Zechariah, Zacarías, Zacharias, Zacarìas

• French given name24K records spelled Zachary11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

  Languages: French, Swahili, Catalan

  Also written Zacharie, Zechariah

• Polish given name11K records spelled Zachary62 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Russia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

  Also written Zachariasz, Zacharias, Zachariaš, Закари, Zachery

• Hungarian given name2.6K records spelled Zachary7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland, Hungary, United Kingdom

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Zacharias, Zacháry, Zachariás

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A male given name from Hebrew, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1900–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 775 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zachary?

We estimate roughly 462 thousand people bear Zachary (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Zachary have the most bearers?

We estimate about 435 thousand people bear Zachary in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zachary.

How common is Zachary compared with other names?

In the United States, Zachary is the 308th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

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?

Recorded meaning: From the Biblical Zacharias via Hebrew Zecharya, literally ‘remember god’.