Zakya
Zakya was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 199 Americans have been recorded with it between 1998 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zakya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zakya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,439, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2006, the peak
Zakya peaked in 2006, when 17 girls were given it, #7,474 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,439 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,077 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,848 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,969 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,900 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,478 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,180 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,706 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,221 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,366 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | #10,063 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,510 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,474 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,107 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,252 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,988 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,225 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,323 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,609 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,120 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zakya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zakya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zakya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zakya, and how old are they?
An estimated 197 Americans named Zakya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 195 people named Zakya (191 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Zakya?
Zakya is a less common spelling of Zakiya: SSA has recorded 199 Zakya and 3,339 Zakiya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,624 babies since 1880, Zakya is the seventh most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 107 babies recorded by SSA was a Zakya (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 Zakya
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 Zakya and names like it
- Compare Zakya and ZakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZakya peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Zakya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zakya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.