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Zakiyah

#3,776 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zakiyah has been given to 2,042 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #3,776 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 108 recorded.

Babies named Zakiyah, 2025

1 in 82,900

Zakiyah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakiyah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zakiyah means

Zakiyah is a given name.

The naming story behind Zakiyah

Wikidata records Zakiyah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116368006, 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, 2,035 girls were recorded with the name Zakiyah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 108 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,965 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,849 in 2020 to #3,776 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,407 in 2015 to #3,776 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Zakiyah between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,912 in 2024.

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 Zakiyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,776
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakiyah 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakiyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakiyah was born before 2010 — so the typical Zakiyah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,035
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (753).

Is Zakiyah 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
−202
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−927
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,369
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.0%
Peak was 2008 (108)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,965
2008

Spellings of Zakiyah

Zakiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 24.6% against Zakiyah's 0.46%.

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 Zakiyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Zakiyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 58,586 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 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.

Zakiyah around the world

Where Zakiyah 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
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2003–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Zakiyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,776
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 927
Best rank ever
#1,965
2008
Peak year
2008
108 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,035
Count in 2025
40

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,912
2024
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zakiyah

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

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Names with a curve like Zakiyah

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

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Sibling names for Zakiyah

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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