Zuleika
Zuleika was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,836 among girls’ names; 1,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Zuleika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 16 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zuleika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zuleika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zuleika is “a female given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic زُلَيْخَا (zulayḵā)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zuleika?
#6,836 among girls’ names, 2025
Zuleika fell from #6,233 in 2015 to #6,836 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 10.6 per million.
54 babies in 2007, the peak
Zuleika peaked in 2007, when 54 girls were given it, #3,213 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,836 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,923 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,401 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 14 | #8,024 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,138 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,241 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,709 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,095 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,331 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,443 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,233 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,845 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,721 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,798 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,203 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,858 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,675 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,086 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,213 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,793 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,812 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,549 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,992 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,436 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,746 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,478 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,795 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,577 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,862 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,053 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,840 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,608 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,410 | 29.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,210 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,836 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,358 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,012 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,477 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,097 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,151 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,314 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,220 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #9,012 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,531 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,342 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,741 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,050 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,282 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,907 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,930 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,512 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,039 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,360 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,555 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,133 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,059 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,614 | 4.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,802 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zuleika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zuleika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zuleika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zuleika, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,230 Americans ever recorded as Zuleika. The median Zuleika alive today is 28 years old; half are between 16 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,798 people named Zuleika (1,786 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 194 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 389 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 373 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 246 |
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 Zuleika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,532 | 0.9× |
Where Zuleika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zuleika is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 1.6 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 Zuleika 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,007 babies since 1880, Zuleika is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 43 babies (40%), again the second 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 Zuleika
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 Zuleika and names like it
- Compare Zuleika and ZuleykaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZuleika peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zuleika since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zuleika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Zuleika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zuleika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.