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Zakai

#563 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Zakai has been given to 4,070 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #563 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 528 recorded.

Babies named Zakai, 2025

1 in 6,280

Zakai over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakai: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakai means

Zakai is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,052 boys were recorded with the name Zakai between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 528 in 2025; its best national rank was #563 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #904 in 2020 to #563 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,566 in 2015 to #563 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Zakai between 2012 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,415 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Zakai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,280
528 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,230
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#563
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakai was born before 2021 — so the typical Zakai is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,052
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.1% of all recorded uses (2,353).

Is Zakai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+41
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+341
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,003
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (528)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#563
2025

Spellings of Zakai

Zakai is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 48.7% against Zakai's 2.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zakai is used

Across 2016–2025, Zakai was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 2,778 boys, against 1 in 5,327 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 25,000).

436 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 2,778
  2. 2Maryland1 in 3,226
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 3,571
  5. 5Virginia1 in 3,571
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 4,167
  7. 7Delaware1 in 4,545
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 4,545

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Zakai is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 22% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zakai around the world

Where Zakai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zakai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#563
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 341
Best rank ever
#563
2025
Peak year
2025
528 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,052
Count in 2025
528

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,415
2023
Peak year
2023
7 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zakai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Zakai

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zakai, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zakai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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