Zakiyah
Zakiyah was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,776 among girls’ names; 2,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Zakiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakiyah?
#3,776 among girls’ names, 2025
Zakiyah fell from #2,407 in 2015 to #3,776 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.1 to 24.9 per million.
108 babies in 2008, the peak
Zakiyah peaked in 2008, when 108 girls were given it, #1,965 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,776 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,574 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,045 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,072 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,550 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,849 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,889 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,289 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,220 | 49.8 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,538 | 40.1 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,407 | 43.1 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,467 | 41.4 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,658 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,231 | 48.3 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,123 | 51.7 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,273 | 47.8 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,074 | 53.9 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,965 | 57.1 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,115 | 49.9 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,097 | 49.4 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,477 | 38.4 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,366 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,836 | 30.1 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,009 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,693 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,811 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,798 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,644 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,121 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,521 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,032 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,659 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #7,031 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,060 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,576 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,124 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,309 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,532 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,487 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,804 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,043 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,504 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,187 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,906 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakiyah has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zakiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakiyah, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,042 Americans ever recorded as Zakiyah. The median Zakiyah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,390 people named Zakiyah (1,360 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,740 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 143 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 779 |
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 Zakiyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,627 | 0.3× |
Where Zakiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakiyah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1976 it was given 1.9 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 Zakiyah 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 9,584 babies since 1880, Zakiyah is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 107 babies (37%), the 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 Zakiyah
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 Zakiyah and names like it
- Compare Zakiyah and ZakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZakiyah peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zakiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zakiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.