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How popular is “Zachary” in the USA?

Number of people named “Zachary” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Zachary” 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 “Zachary” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Zachary” by birth year

This chart shows how “Zachary” 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
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 18 0.00001583 18 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 -100%
1916 17 0.000008788 17 -100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 20 0.000009478 20 -100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 -100%
1921 19 0.000008139 19 -100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 -100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 -100%
1925 21 0.000009 21 -100%
1926 22 0.000009582 22 -100%
1927 13 0.000005605 13 -100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 -100%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 -100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 -100%
1933 14 0.000007002 14 -100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 -100%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 18 0.000008448 18 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 -100%
1939 15 0.000006808 15 -100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 -100%
1946 49 0.000015335 49 -100%
1947 70 0.000019432 70 -100%
1948 91 0.000026358 91 -100%
1949 107 0.000030705 107 -100%
1950 149 0.000042531 149 -100%
1951 151 0.000040991 151 -100%
1952 171 0.000045024 171 -100%
1953 161 0.000041779 161 -100%
1954 200 0.000050242 200 -100%
1955 280 0.000069737 280 -100%
1956 270 0.000065486 270 -100%
1957 289 0.000068774 289 -100%
1958 237 0.000057331 237 -100%
1959 262 0.000063011 262 -100%
1960 350 0.00008426 5 345 -97%
1961 369 0.000089081 369 -100%
1962 339 0.000084007 339 -100%
1963 327 0.000082613 327 -100%
1964 333 0.000085657 333 -100%
1965 313 0.000086334 313 -100%
1966 330 0.000094946 330 -100%
1967 364 0.00010722 364 -100%
1968 347 0.000102711 7 340 -96%
1969 419 0.000120564 419 -100%
1970 565 0.000156661 6 559 -98%
1971 701 0.000204233 701 -100%
1972 1007 0.000320395 6 1001 -99%
1973 1136 0.000376547 1136 -100%
1974 1280 0.000421053 5 1275 -99%
1975 1695 0.000561371 7 1688 -99%
1976 2655 0.000874996 9 2646 -99%
1977 2796 0.000880216 19 2777 -99%
1978 3150 0.000992479 21 3129 -99%
1979 4184 0.001257589 28 4156 -99%
1980 4274 0.001240817 29 4245 -99%
1981 4876 0.001409503 30 4846 -99%
1982 6181 0.001761992 41 6140 -99%
1983 7348 0.002121652 39 7309 -99%
1984 9121 0.0026144 56 9065 -99%
1985 11423 0.003200518 77 11346 -99%
1986 11814 0.003321265 87 11727 -99%
1987 13287 0.003685087 84 13203 -99%
1988 15976 0.00432363 105 15871 -99%
1989 18147 0.004720315 69 18078 -99%
1990 20489 0.005183836 57 20432 -99%
1991 21434 0.005502578 47 21387 -100%
1992 24853 0.006469991 53 24800 -100%
1993 25590 0.006787296 53 25537 -100%
1994 25191 0.006776049 54 25137 -100%
1995 23184 0.006330699 55 23129 -100%
1996 22409 0.006144174 41 22368 -100%
1997 21961 0.006056956 33 21928 -100%
1998 20623 0.005606808 43 20580 -100%
1999 20013 0.005417899 31 19982 -100%
2000 19890 0.005262038 38 19852 -100%
2001 18219 0.004866979 34 18185 -100%
2002 16648 0.004453372 26 16622 -100%
2003 15561 0.004092502 21 15540 -100%
2004 13782 0.003606982 70 13712 -99%
2005 12308 0.003201169 20 12288 -100%
2006 11034 0.002789048 21 11013 -100%
2007 10228 0.002558482 11 10217 -100%
2008 9247 0.002352528 12 9235 -100%
2009 8101 0.002120584 10 8091 -100%
2010 7194 0.001946566 10 7184 -100%
2011 6817 0.001863693 7 6810 -100%
2012 6271 0.001714621 8 6263 -100%
2013 5780 0.001585444 6 5774 -100%
2014 5195 0.001401639 8 5187 -100%
2015 4870 0.001315892 5 4865 -100%
2016 4585 0.001249762 9 4576 -100%
2017 3826 0.001069852 5 3821 -100%
2018 3575 0.00101681 3575 -100%
2019 3089 0.000889962 6 3083 -100%
2020 2726 0.000816027 2726 -100%
2021 2596 0.000766245 2596 -100%
2022 2266 0.000669793 5 2261 -100%
2023 2122 0.000640856 2122 -100%
2024 1835 0.000551299 1835 -100%

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  5. Zacharry
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