Zakaria — #1387 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zakaria

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,769 babies named Zakaria between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zakaria currently holds the #1387 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 145 babies received it in a single year. Zakaria is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 466 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zakaria performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Zakaria shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 265 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Zakaria in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zakaria in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,769 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.