Zaccai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAK-eye
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,859 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #1,852 for boys
Zaccai is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pure, innocent”. In 2025 it ranked 1,859th for boys in the UK (14 babies) and 1,852nd for boys in the US (85 babies).
What does Zaccai mean?
Hebrew: 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.
Is Zaccai a girl's or a boy's name?
Zaccai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 boys in the UK and 85 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zaccai in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,859th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 21,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 177% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 14 boys in the UK were named Zaccai, making it the 1,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,562nd.
2025 had the most boys named Zaccai of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Zaccai in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,795th in England and Wales.
Zaccai in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #1,859 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,149 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,155 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,143 |
| 2021 | 8 | #2,619 |
| 2020 | 8 | #2,562 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #3,446 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
How popular is Zaccai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,852nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 85 about 1 in 20,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 153% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 85 boys in the US were named Zaccai, making it the 1,852nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,727th. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had the most boys named Zaccai of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
Half of all the boys named Zaccai in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 92 boys in the US were given Zaccai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,556, up from #1,852 for this spelling alone.
- Zaccai 85
- Zacai 7
Zaccai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,852 |
| 2024 | 77 | #1,997 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,894 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,828 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,651 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,727 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,226 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,250 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,618 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
Nicknames for Zaccai
- Zac 126 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Zaccai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Albie, Zion, Ezra, Asher, Axel, Levi, Eli, Musa, Ilyas, Eesa, Enzo, Theo
Other spellings of Zaccai
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Zaccai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zaccai, updated 20 October 2026.