Zacai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAK-eye
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Zacai is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pure, innocent”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Zacai mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Zaccai; from Hebrew Zakkai
“pure, innocent”
It is the Hebrew source of Zacchaeus, the tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus in Luke's Gospel.
Meaning borrowed from Zaccai.
Is Zacai a girl's or a boy's name?
Zacai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zacai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Zacai, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the boys named Zacai in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 92 boys in the US were given Zacai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,556, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
- Zaccai 85
- Zacai 7
Zacai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
Nicknames for Zacai
- Zac 126 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Zacai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zakai, Moses, Ellis, August, Asa, Henry, Otto, Amos, Azai, Enoch, Charlie, Jasai
Other spellings of Zacai
Names related to Zacai
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zacai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zacai, updated 20 October 2026.