Zack

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Zack is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 135 births. Its best rank was 317th, in 1883.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1350.01% of boys
Peak year: 2008237 births
Best rank: #317in 1883
Since 1880: 8,887people given the name

Babies named Zack, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

8,887 boys have been named Zack in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 237 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 21%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Zack
1880s	222
1890s	183
1900s	132
1910s	371
1920s	503
1930s	361
1940s	289
1950s	361
1960s	299
1970s	377
1980s	594
1990s	950
2000s	1,872
2010s	1,658
2020s	715

In 2008, its biggest year

Zack was the 889th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.

Names that rose and fell with Zack

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.