Zakiah
Zakiah is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,087 among girls’ names and #6,792 among boys’, #9,638 among all names counting both); 716 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakiah?
#10,087 among girls’ names, 2025
Zakiah fell from #7,996 in 2015 to #10,087 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 6.2 per million.
39 babies in 2006, the peak
Zakiah peaked in 2006, when 39 babies were given it (31 girls, #4,683 among girls’ names). The 23 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,087 | 13 | #6,792 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,949 | 14 | #6,455 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,624 | 19 | #5,243 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,205 | 14 | #6,470 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,440 | 14 | #6,324 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,950 | 14 | #6,285 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,117 | 14 | #6,396 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,746 | 9 | #8,796 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,277 | 9 | #8,819 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,377 | 9 | #8,790 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,996 | 9 | #8,723 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,624 | 5 | #14,027 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,880 | 6 | #12,101 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,447 | 11 | #7,538 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,719 | 6 | #12,251 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,684 | 8 | #9,665 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,055 | 10 | #8,297 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,948 | 8 | #9,850 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,702 | 5 | #14,357 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,683 | 8 | #9,569 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,127 | 6 | #11,445 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,205 | 6 | #11,329 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,288 | 8 | #8,623 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,427 | 10 | #7,030 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,488 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,150 | 5 | #12,095 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,665 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,089 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,007 | 6 | #9,246 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,495 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,941 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zakiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 716 Americans recorded as Zakiah, 66% are girls and 34% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zakiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 709 Americans named Zakiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Zakiah (366 women and girls, 129 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Zakiah?
Zakiah is a less common spelling of Zakiya: SSA has recorded 716 Zakiah and 3,339 Zakiya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,603 babies since 1880, Zakiah is the fifth most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 107 babies (21%), the third 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 Zakiah
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 Zakiah and names like it
- Compare Zakiah and ZakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZakiah peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Zakiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zakiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.