Zakiyyah
Zakiyyah was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,163 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Zakiyyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 27 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakiyyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakiyyah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,705, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1978, the peak
Zakiyyah peaked in 1978, when 71 girls were given it, #1,557 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,705 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,198 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,831 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,841 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,158 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,980 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,696 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,790 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,248 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,874 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 14 | #8,953 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,090 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,897 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,807 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,819 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,935 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,490 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,561 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,969 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,196 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,493 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,972 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,141 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,485 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,442 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,151 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,375 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,434 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,016 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,662 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,314 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,470 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,456 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,980 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,912 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,657 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,643 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,341 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,734 | 39.1 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,677 | 41.7 |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,557 | 46.3 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,831 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,133 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,061 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakiyyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakiyyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zakiyyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakiyyah, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,163 Americans ever recorded as Zakiyyah. The median Zakiyyah alive today is 36 years old; half are between 27 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 978 people named Zakiyyah (978 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 291 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 467 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 327 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 46 |
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 Zakiyyah born?
The states with the most babies named Zakiyyah are New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, with 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 148 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 89 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zakiyyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zakiyyah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 4.4 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 Zakiyyah 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,603 babies since 1880, Zakiyyah is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 none of their 97 babies recorded by SSA was a Zakiyyah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Zakiyyah
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 Zakiyyah and names like it
- Compare Zakiyyah and ZakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sZakiyyah peaked in 1978.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zakiyyah since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Zakiyyah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zakiyyah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.