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Zaki

#2,420 in 2025Boys' name

Pure

Zaki has been given to 1,514 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,420 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Zaki, 2025

1 in 58,200

Zaki over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaki: meaning, origin, and history

Pure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaki means

Zaki means “pure”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,514 boys were recorded with the name Zaki between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,183 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,844 in 2020 to #2,420 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,409 in 2015 to #2,420 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 Zaki?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,420
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaki 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaki was born before 2011 — so the typical Zaki is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,514
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (492).

Is Zaki 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
+55
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+424
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−11
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.9%
Peak was 2008 (62)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,183
2008

Spellings of Zaki

Zaki is not the most common spelling — Jake is, with 26.2% against Zaki's 0.31%.

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 Zaki is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 73,007 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Zaki around the world

Where Zaki 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
    #953
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2006
    #584
    in 2006
  • France
    1969–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Zaki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,420
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 424
Best rank ever
#2,183
2008
Peak year
2008
62 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,514
Count in 2025
57

Names similar to Zaki

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

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Sibling names for Zaki

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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