Zakia
Zakia was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,086 among girls’ names; 1,740 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Zakia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakia?
#10,086 among girls’ names, 2025
Zakia fell from #7,257 in 2015 to #10,086 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 6.2 per million.
88 babies in 1975, the peak
Zakia peaked in 1975, when 88 girls were given it, #1,277 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,086 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,096 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,473 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #8,017 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,173 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,072 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,093 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,598 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,033 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,894 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,257 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,983 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,360 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,393 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,840 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,239 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,800 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,273 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,426 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,850 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,207 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,438 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,126 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,141 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,135 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,163 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,778 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,275 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,101 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,895 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,415 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,227 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,932 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,824 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,928 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,356 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,521 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,475 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,420 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,642 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,850 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,611 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,239 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,170 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,927 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,341 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,524 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,636 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,256 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,839 | 34.8 |
| 1975 | 88 | #1,277 | 60.4 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,425 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,968 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,520 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #6,003 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakia has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zakia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakia, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,740 Americans ever recorded as Zakia. The median Zakia alive today is 30 years old; half are between 21 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,462 people named Zakia (2,387 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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 | 320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 656 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 193 |
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 Zakia born?
The states with the most babies named Zakia are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 164 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| New York | 140 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zakia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakia is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1971 it was given 2.2 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 girls’ 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 Zakia 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 8,624 babies since 1880, Zakia is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 107 babies (9.3%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Zakia
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 Zakia and names like it
- Compare Zakia and ZakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sZakia peaked in 1975.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakia since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Zakia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zakia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.