Zach

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zach: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zach: Recorded since 1993, it reached #65 in 2014, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
91times a registrar ranked it
33years from first to last
#65highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#271
1997	#278
1998	#336
1999	#331
2000	#330
2001	#331
2002	#353
2003	#320
2004	#265
2005	#247
2006	#228
2007	#175
2008	#168
2009	#195
2010	#167
2011	#168
2012	#194
2013	#228
2014	#226
2015	#265
2016	#279
2017	#324
2018	#301
2019	#314
2020	#342
2021	#356
2022	#399
2023	#403
2024	#509
2025	#426

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 32 of the 33 years from 1993 to 2025.

In 2025: #94 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #426 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1993–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1993
First recorded at #302 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1993 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #65 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2014 (recorded 1997–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #426 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Zach appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 32 years beginning in 1993, and has registered 1,483 births with the name.

Zach across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zach's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#302 (1993)	#81 (2021)	#94 (2025)	32 of 33	1,483 (1993–2025)	93 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#271 (1996)	#167 (2010)	#426 (2025)	30 of 30	4,848 (1996–2025)	342 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#248 (1997)	#65 (2014)	#108 (2024)	28 of 28	740 (1997–2024)	46 (2010)

Zach by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zach in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	6 of 10	4
2000s	351	10 of 10	35
2010sbusiest	735	10 of 10	74
2020s	372	6 of 10	62

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 27, from 55 to 82.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Zach appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1993 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #65 in Northern Ireland in 2014.

Zach's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#426	94	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#509	77	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#403	99	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#399	106	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#356	126	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#342	131	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#314	150	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#301	161	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#324	151	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#279	183	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#265	193	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#226	249	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#228	229	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#194	286	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#168	342	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#167	335	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#195	247	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#168	299	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#175	282	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#228	178	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#247	141	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#265	123	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#320	87	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#353	71	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#331	79	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#330	77	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#331	78	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#336	71	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#278	99	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#271	104	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#108	21	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#73	34	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#91	28	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#99	28	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#95	29	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#89	34	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#80	36	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#105	27	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#89	36	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#91	34	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#65	46	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#71	44	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#74	46	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#77	46	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#73	46	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#114	25	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#98	34	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#79	40	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#145	16	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#116	21	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#130	18	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#172	10	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#167	9	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#192	7	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#152	10	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#199	7	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#240	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#248	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#94	62	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#115	48	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#96	60	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#97	65	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#81	82	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#111	55	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#97	68	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#85	81	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#104	65	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#97	74	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#103	70	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#112	65	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#106	68	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#88	93	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#96	82	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#105	69	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	63	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#121	62	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#106	67	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#130	43	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#134	39	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#201	16	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#178	19	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#226	11	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#183	16	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#177	15	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	7	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#382	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#302	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#148	31	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Zach is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Zach, between 1993 and 2025, in 32 of those 33 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1993–2025	32	#81 in 2021
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#167 in 2010
Northern Ireland	1997–2024	28	#65 in 2014
Scotland	2024	1	#148 in 2024

Its high point came 14 years earlier in England and Wales (2010) than in Scotland (2024).

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1993 and 2025, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #65, first reached in 2014.

It held a top-100 place in 16 years, 7 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 342 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 31 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Zaccai · #1798, 12y
Zacchaeus · #2357, 14y
Zacharia · #840, 30y
Zachariah · #236, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Darcie · #66, 30y
Cheyenne · #63, 30y
Dexter · #63, 30y
Farrah · #63, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Fletcher · #65, 30y
Mateo · #65, 31y
Zac · #65, 30y
Alba · #66, 31y

Zach was ranked #65 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2014. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aodhan#65
Bobby#65
Kai#65
Niall#65
Caolan#70
Cian#70
Sam#70
Lorcan#73

Zach and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zach without appearing here.

Zach moved ahead of

Daithi
In 2017 they stood at #104 and #71 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2018 that had become #85 and #471.
Jonah
In 1999 they stood at #382 and #337 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2000 that had become #177 and #390.
Roger
In 1999 they stood at #382 and #382 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2000 that had become #177 and #390.
Oisin
In 2017 they stood at #104 and #11 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2018 that had become #85 and #247.

Moved ahead of Zach

Finley
In 1997 they stood at #278 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #336 and #182.
Finlay
In 1997 they stood at #278 and #298 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #336 and #183.
Callum
In 1993 they stood at #302 and #339 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 1994 that had become #342 and #225.
Tadhg
In 2023 they stood at #403 and #419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #509 and #406.

Moved the opposite way to Zach

Daithi
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 while Daithi went from #275 to #509.
Denis
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 while Denis went from #93 to #232.
Derek
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 while Derek went from #98 to #432.
Eoin
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 while Eoin went from #22 to #106.

Moved the same way as Zach

Arthur
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 and Arthur from #339 to #57.
Ethan
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 and Ethan from #138 to #51.
Hugo
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 and Hugo from #339 to #42.
Leon
Between 1993 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Zach went from #302 to #94 and Leon from #144 to #73.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1993 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #65 in Northern Ireland in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zach

Zach at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zach across 3 official records

Zach by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zach appears in

Popularity data

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Zach at a glance

Zach across 3 official records

Zach by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zach appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Zach

Zach and the names beside it

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