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The first name 
Zac

Zac is a first name for boys.

When two boys called Zac meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zac is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Zac. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zac is #1,973 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zac.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zac

Zac -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Zac did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Zac seemed to be more popular than ever in 2010. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,635, 83 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zac, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Zac was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Zac in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Zac a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,437 - with a total of 47 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Zac -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Zac. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 415 Americans who bear this name. And these 415 men and boys named Zac live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Zac lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Zac and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Zac relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 87,805 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Zac.

Zac has 3 letters 
and begins with a Z

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With only three letters, the name Zac is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.

Other names with 
Z, a and c

If you take all the letters in the name Zac – Z, a and c – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Caz.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zac

If your name is Zac and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Zac

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zac, you can simply say:

Zebra

Apple

Cat

This is how the name Zac is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zac in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zac

Zac

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zac

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zac is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
A
C

Have you ever waved the name Zac

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Z
A
C

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zac sounds like this: