Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Zach” in the USA?

Number of people named “Zach” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Zach” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Zach” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Zach” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Zach” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Zach” by birth year

This chart shows how “Zach” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 -100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 -100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 -100%
1973 30 0.000009944 30 -100%
1974 21 0.000006908 21 -100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 -100%
1976 20 0.000006591 20 -100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 -100%
1978 20 0.000006301 20 -100%
1979 36 0.000010821 36 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 -100%
1981 28 0.000008094 28 -100%
1982 32 0.000009122 32 -100%
1983 34 0.000009817 34 -100%
1984 28 0.000008026 28 -100%
1985 39 0.000010927 39 -100%
1986 34 0.000009558 34 -100%
1987 39 0.000010816 39 -100%
1988 24 0.000006495 24 -100%
1989 34 0.000008844 34 -100%
1990 36 0.000009108 36 -100%
1991 30 0.000007702 30 -100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 -100%
1993 41 0.000010875 41 -100%
1994 38 0.000010222 38 -100%
1995 30 0.000008192 30 -100%
1996 32 0.000008774 32 -100%
1997 42 0.000011584 42 -100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 -100%
1999 48 0.000012995 48 -100%
2000 56 0.000014815 56 -100%
2001 56 0.00001496 56 -100%
2002 65 0.000017388 65 -100%
2003 73 0.000019199 73 -100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 81 0.000021067 81 -100%
2006 78 0.000019716 78 -100%
2007 86 0.000021512 86 -100%
2008 85 0.000021625 85 -100%
2009 74 0.000019371 74 -100%
2010 56 0.000015153 56 -100%
2011 71 0.000019411 71 -100%
2012 63 0.000017226 63 -100%
2013 74 0.000020298 74 -100%
2014 67 0.000018077 67 -100%
2015 73 0.000019725 73 -100%
2016 40 0.000010903 40 -100%
2017 47 0.000013142 47 -100%
2018 65 0.000018487 65 -100%
2019 62 0.000017863 62 -100%
2020 56 0.000016764 56 -100%
2021 74 0.000021842 74 -100%
2022 59 0.000017439 59 -100%
2023 63 0.000019026 63 -100%
2024 57 0.000017125 57 -100%

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