How Many People Are Named Zack?

6,818

people named Zack are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 50,129 people in the US has this name

Based on 9,012 babies named Zack in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,078

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,192

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Peak Year

2008

237 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: ZAK
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Short form of ZACHARY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Zack in English. Counting Zack and these spellings together, about 12,600 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Zack in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Zack alive today is about 25 years old, and 69% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 34 in 2025.

Under 30 4,734
69.4%
30 to 59 1,498
22%
60 and over 586
8.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Zack first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2008, to 237 babies. In 2025, 126 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Zack has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #317, in 1883. In 2025 it ranked #1,435.

Boys
Rank in 2025#1,435
Best rank#317 (1883)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#955 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Zack alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Zack were born in California than in any other state: about 809 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Zack was given 2.3 times as often in Utah, 1.8 times in Florida and 1.7 times in Texas.

California 809
Texas 587
New York 421
Florida 375
New Jersey 149
Illinois 129
Pennsylvania 127
Utah 105
Massachusetts 85
Ohio 84
Michigan 83
North Carolina 80
Arizona 72
Georgia 70
Minnesota 70
Louisiana 60
Washington 56
Colorado 35
Maryland 35
Indiana 33
Wisconsin 22
Alabama 20
Missouri 19
Virginia 16
Kansas 16
Oregon 11
Idaho 10
Connecticut 10
Arkansas 7
Hawaii 5
Oklahoma 5
Nevada 5
Nebraska 5
Kentucky 4
Mississippi 4
Tennessee 2

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