Zach
#2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 30 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,804since 1913
Zach over time
Rank among boys' names. Zach has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #2,418 | 57 |
| 2023 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #1,982 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,366 | 56 |
| 2019 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | #2,637 | 47 |
| 2016 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 2015 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | #2,082 | 67 |
| 2013 | #1,903 | 74 |
| 2012 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #1,947 | 71 |
| 2010 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2007 | #1,728 | 86 |
| 2006 | #1,769 | 78 |
| 2005 | #1,659 | 81 |
| 2004 | #1,701 | 75 |
| 2003 | #1,687 | 73 |
| 2002 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,096 | 42 |
| 1996 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #2,500 | 30 |
| 1994 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,049 | 36 |
| 1989 | #2,106 | 33 |
| 1988 | #2,437 | 24 |
| 1987 | #1,709 | 39 |
| 1986 | #1,791 | 34 |
| 1985 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,687 | 34 |
| 1982 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #1,586 | 30 |
| 1972 | #1,566 | 30 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #2,242 | 14 |
| 1960 | #2,535 | 11 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 11 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,497 | 11 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #3,408 | 7 |
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| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zach! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zach is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,492 · 1 in 30,614
Best ever in a state: #488 in Washington, 1986.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,492 | 5 | 1 in 30,614 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zach
- 62 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,480)
- 114 spots since 2020 (#2,366 → #2,480)
- 497 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1972 at #1,566 (30 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,326 boys born in 2021 were named Zach (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,566 in 1972, was only 1 in 54,054 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.0% of all boys named Zach (729) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | #2,821 (1913) | #3,463 |
| 1920s | 13 | #3,408 (1925) | #3,612 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,534 (1938) | #3,588 |
| 1940s | 10 | #3,338 (1945) | #3,449 |
| 1950s | 42 | #2,497 (1956) | #3,006 |
| 1960s | 75 | #2,242 (1961) | #2,886 |
| 1970s | 238 | #1,566 (1972) | #2,008 |
| 1980s | 308 | #1,614 (1985) | #1,972 |
| 1990s | 374 | #1,750 (1992) | #2,205 |
| 2000s | 729 | #1,659 (2005) | #1,781 |
| 2010s | 618 | #1,903 (2013) | #2,228 |
| 2020s | 364 | #1,982 (2021) | #2,312 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zach in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 47,837 of them was named Zach, which outranked 80.6% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,933Thurman42
- #1,933Zacary42
- #1,933Zachory42
- #1,969Zach41
- #1,969Ace41
- #1,969Brogan41
- #1,969Brycen41
- #2,007Akshay40
- #2,007Alexandros40
- #2,007Ambrose40
Tied with 37 names at #1,969; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.