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Zakari

#1,062 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zakari has been given to 2,729 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #1,062 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 213 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Zakari, 2025

1 in 16,100

Zakari over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Zakari over time

In 2025, Zakari went to 4% girls and 96% boys.

19862025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Zakari: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakari means

Zakari is a given name.

The naming story behind Zakari

Wikidata records Zakari as a given name. The entity identifier is Q108141476, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,472 boys were recorded with the name Zakari between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 213 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,030 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,141 in 2020 to #1,062 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,233 in 2015 to #1,062 in 2025.

In the United States, 257 girls were recorded with the name Zakari between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,775 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,907 in 2020 to #10,896 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,132 in 2015 to #10,896 in 2025.

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 Zakari?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,100
206 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,290
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,062
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,156 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakari 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 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,156 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakaris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakari was born before 2019 — so the typical Zakari is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,472
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (1,120).

Is Zakari 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
+33
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,171
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.7%
Peak was 2023 (213)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,030
2023

Spellings of Zakari

Zakari is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 17.6% against Zakari's 1.4%.

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 Zakari is used

Across 2016–2025, Zakari was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 10,295 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 50,000).

228 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 3,571
  2. 2Georgia1 in 4,348
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 4,348
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 4,762
  5. 5Virginia1 in 5,882
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 7,143
  7. 7Alabama1 in 7,692
  8. 8Florida1 in 7,692

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.

Zakari around the world

Where Zakari 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #2,985
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Zakari

People whose public names include Zakari, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zakari by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,062
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 79
Best rank ever
#1,030
2023
Peak year
2023
213 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,472
Count in 2025
206

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,896
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,989
Best rank ever
#5,775
2018
Peak year
2018
22 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
257
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Zakari

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

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Names with a curve like Zakari

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

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Sibling names for Zakari

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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