Zakiya
Zakiya was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,263 among girls’ names; 3,339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Zakiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakiya?
#4,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Zakiya fell from #2,589 in 2015 to #4,263 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 21.2 per million.
129 babies in 1997, the peak
Zakiya peaked in 1997, when 129 girls were given it, #1,340 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,263 | 21.2 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,890 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,908 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,698 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,433 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,164 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,070 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,071 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,385 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,965 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,589 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,075 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,624 | 38.8 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,208 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,237 | 48.3 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,166 | 51.2 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,824 | 34.3 |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,183 | 48.7 |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,069 | 51.5 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,864 | 57.9 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,765 | 60.6 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,322 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,045 | 48.2 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,692 | 60.7 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,990 | 47.8 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,840 | 51.8 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,889 | 47.4 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,428 | 68.5 |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,340 | 74.1 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,719 | 50.2 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,874 | 42.6 |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,136 | 35.8 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,121 | 35.4 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,699 | 48.3 |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,007 | 36.8 |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,094 | 33.2 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,090 | 32.5 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,738 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,569 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,468 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,599 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,190 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,307 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,113 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,562 | 22.2 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,804 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,049 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,861 | 35.3 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,760 | 38.5 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,059 | 29.3 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,195 | 26.8 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,224 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,868 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,953 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zakiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakiya, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,339 Americans ever recorded as Zakiya. The median Zakiya alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,616 people named Zakiya (2,585 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,068 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 325 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 881 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 599 |
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 Zakiya born?
The states with the most babies named Zakiya are New York, California and Georgia, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 319 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 173 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 144 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 142 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 125 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 71 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 44 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 43 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Zakiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakiya is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 1.4 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 Zakiya 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 9,603 babies since 1880, Zakiya is the most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 107 babies (32%), the second 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 Zakiya
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 Zakiya and names like it
- Compare Zakiya and ZakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZakiya peaked in 1997.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakiya since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Zakiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zakiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.