Zeki
Zeki was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,900 among boys’ names; 117 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zeki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zeki?
#13,900 among boys’ names, 2025
Zeki fell from #8,023 in 2015 to #13,900 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 2.9 per million.
11 babies in 2020, the peak
Zeki peaked in 2020, when 11 boys were given it, #7,485 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,900 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #14,263 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,973 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 5 | #14,069 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,485 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,782 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,144 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,825 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 10 | #8,023 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,770 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #12,253 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,206 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,467 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,771 | 3.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,203 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,877 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zeki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zeki has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zeki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zeki, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Zeki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Zeki (5 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 84 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Zeki rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 9,132 babies since 1880, Zeki is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 352 babies (1.4%), again the fourth most given.
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 Zeki
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 Zeki and names like it
- Compare Zeki and ZekeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZeki peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Zeki.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zeki alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.