Zakai
Zakai was given to 528 boys in 2025, #563 among boys’ names; 4,070 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,040 Americans named Zakai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakai?
#563 among boys’ names, 2025
Zakai rose from #1,566 in 2015 to #563 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.31 per 1,000.
528 babies in 2025, the peak
Zakai peaked in 2025, when 528 boys were given it, #563 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 473 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 528 | #563 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 473 | #604 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 415 | #661 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 374 | #706 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 314 | #785 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 249 | #904 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 244 | #904 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 242 | #898 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 185 | #1,072 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,287 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 104 | #1,566 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 84 | #1,793 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 95 | #1,622 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 89 | #1,709 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,201 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,513 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,060 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,608 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,880 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,107 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,626 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,664 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,611 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakai has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zakai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakai, and how old are they?
4,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,070 Americans ever recorded as Zakai. The median Zakai alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,311 people named Zakai (38 women and girls, 1,273 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zakai born?
The states with the most babies named Zakai are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 48 | #411 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 47 | #648 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 33 | #369 | 1.4× |
| California | 32 | #796 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #396 | 1.4× |
| New York | 26 | #600 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #459 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 20 | #539 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 20 | #511 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #450 | 1.1× |
Where Zakai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakai is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1998 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zakai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,659 babies since 1880, Zakai is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 528 of their 764 babies (69%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zakai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zakai and names like it
- Compare Zakai and ZakiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZakai peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakai since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zakai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zakai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.