Zach is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zach 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 Zach. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zach is #1,986 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 Zach.
While Zach is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1972, the name Zach reached its highest popularity with #1,382 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Zach. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Zach.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zach was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 59 babies were born with the name Zach. This puts the name in rank 2,106 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,736,034 newborns was named Zach that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Zach has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of having a man or boy named Zach in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Zach is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana or Massachusetts. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Zach live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 60,625 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Zach.
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 four letters, the name Zach is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
If your name is Zach 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zach, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Cat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zach
Zach
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
C
H
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
H
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. Zach sounds like this:
