Zaki
Zaki was given to 57 boys in 2025, #2,420 among boys’ names; 1,514 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Zaki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaki?
#2,420 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaki fell from #2,409 in 2015 to #2,420 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 28.2 to 33.4 per million.
62 babies in 2008, the peak
Zaki peaked in 2008, when 62 boys were given it, #2,183 among boys’ names. The 57 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,420 | 33.4 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,475 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,288 | 36.2 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,377 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,916 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,844 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,764 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,443 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,447 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,836 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,409 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,749 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,525 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,486 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,588 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,509 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,160 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,183 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,640 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,221 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,488 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,881 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 44 | #2,423 | 22.3 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,938 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,212 | 24.2 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,730 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,176 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,592 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,254 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 17 | #4,013 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,845 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,903 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,439 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,647 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,508 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,771 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,925 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,441 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #6,076 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,916 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,775 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,547 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,334 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,361 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,503 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,128 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,354 | 7.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,575 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,453 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,628 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaki has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaki, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,514 Americans ever recorded as Zaki. The median Zaki alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,607 people named Zaki (30 women and girls, 1,577 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 628 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 659 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,254 babies since 1880, Zaki is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 684 babies (8.3%), again the second 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 Zaki
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 Zaki and names like it
- Compare Zaki and ZakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZaki peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaki since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zaki.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaki alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.