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Boy · Hebrew, through English
Zachery
Say it: ZAK-er-ee
Meaning
A spelling of Zachary, from Hebrew Zekharyah 'God has remembered'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A variant spelling used in the US in the 1980s and 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 29,619 babies given this name since 1948
- At its height in 1993, about 1 in 1,000 boys
- 48 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Zachary, Zackary
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.