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Zakia

#10,086 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Zakiyya

Zakia has been given to 1,740 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #10,086 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Zakia, 2025

1 in 332,000

Zakia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakia: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zakiyya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakia means

Zakia is a alternate transcription of Zakiyya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zakiyya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,724 girls were recorded with the name Zakia between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,277 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,072 in 2020 to #10,086 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,257 in 2015 to #10,086 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Zakia between 2000 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #11,328 in 2004.

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 Zakia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,086
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakia was born before 1996 — so the typical Zakia is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,724
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1990s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (441).

Is Zakia 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
+1,010
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,014
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,829
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1975 (88)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,277
1975

Spellings of Zakia

Zakia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 45.2% against Zakia's 0.14%.

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 Zakia is used

Across 1910–2025, Zakia was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 187,997 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Zakia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zakia around the world

Where Zakia 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
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • France
    1948–2025
    #3,280
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2012
    #2,855
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2002–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zakia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,086
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,014
Best rank ever
#1,277
1975
Peak year
1975
88 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,724
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,328
2004
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zakia

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

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Sibling names for Zakia

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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