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Zakiya

#4,263 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Zakiyya

Zakiya has been given to 3,339 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #4,263 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Zakiya, 2025

1 in 97,500

Zakiya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakiya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zakiyya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakiya means

Zakiya is a alternate transcription of Zakiyya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zakiyya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,339 girls were recorded with the name Zakiya between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,340 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,164 in 2020 to #4,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,589 in 2015 to #4,263 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 Zakiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,263
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakiya 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakiya was born before 2000 — so the typical Zakiya is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,339
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (928).

Is Zakiya 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
−373
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−99
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,674
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.4%
Peak was 1997 (129)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,340
1997

Spellings of Zakiya

Zakiya is not the most common spelling — Aniya is, with 6.7% against Zakiya's 1.2%.

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 Zakiya is used

Across 1910–2025, Zakiya was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 79,128 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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. Zakiya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zakiya around the world

Where Zakiya 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
    1996–2023
    #3,599
    in 2023
  • France
    1960–2025
    #6,381
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2003–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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 Zakiya

People whose public names include Zakiya, 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.

Zakiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 99
Best rank ever
#1,340
1997
Peak year
1997
129 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,339
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Zakiya

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

ZakiyahJamiyaKamiyaLaniyaZaniyaAlaiyaMakiyaZakiaSafiyaSamiyaMariyaMaliyaKaniyaAnaiyaTaniyaZariyaAmaiyaShriyaTamiyaNakiyaZakaiyaSariyaZakiahDaniya

Names with a curve like Zakiya

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

ChristiannaRyanneAnalisaJanaiStefanyKristianaAleaPassionAutumKarahCalliAcacia

Sibling names for Zakiya

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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