Zakhia — girls' name
203 babies named Zakhia in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
63% of everyone ever named Zakhia was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Zakhia in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Zakhia
The Social Security Administration has registered 203 babies named Zakhia between 2002 and 2018, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zakhia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Zakhia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Zakhia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zakhia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Zakhia 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 203 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.
Zakhia at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Zakhia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2002
- Peak year (2008)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
203 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 26 births in a single year.
Zakhia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 128 births that decade — 63% of Zakhia's all-time total
Zakhia decade highlights
- Peak decade 128 births
- Runner-up 75 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Zakhia's strongest decade
128 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 63% of all-time use.
Zakhia by state
Where Zakhia concentrates geographically — total births since 2002
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 12 | 5.9% |
12 of 203 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 5.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 5.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.