Zak
Zak is a boy's name that peaked in 2004, when it was the 2,283rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 1,600 Zaks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Zak
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,608
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 2,283rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1965
How old the living Zaks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,608 babies given the name since 1965, about 1,600 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 640 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Zaks
- Zak Penn (born 1968)American screenwriter
- Zak Starkey (born 1965)English drummer
- Zak Orth (born 1970)American comedic actor
- Zak Brown (born 1971)American businessman and racing driver
- Zak Whitbread (born 1984)American soccer player
- Zak Dempster (born 1987)Australian racing cyclist
- Zak Santiago (born 1981)Canadian film actor
- Zak Spears (born 1965)American pornographic actor in gay films, formerly mainstream film actor
People named Zak with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zak is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zak is most concentrated in California (4.8×), Texas (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Zak peaked:
Zak elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Zak | 10,050 | 101st |
| Scotland boys | Zak | 1,378 | 76th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Zak | 303 | 111th |
| France boys | Zak | 275 | 1,504th |
| Ireland boys | Zak | 261 | 225th |
| Switzerland boys | Zak | 27 | 1,291st |
| Poland boys | Zak | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zak: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Zak | 5 | 0.000% | 1,009th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Zak | 21 | 0.005% | 566th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Zak | 1 | 0.002% | 169th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Zak against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.