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Zalika

Girls' name

Possibly ahead, brilliant

Zalika has been given to 236 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Zalika, 2019

1 in 386,000

Zalika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zalika: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly ahead, brilliant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zalika means

Zalika may mean “ahead, brilliant”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Uncertain. Suggestions include a Swahili Muslim name meaning "ahead, brilliant", or an Egyptian Arabic name meaning 'well-born' or 'born into power'.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Zalika (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Zalika is used in English and Slovene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 236 girls were recorded with the name Zalika between 1975 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1992; its best national rank was #5,980 in 1975.

How common is Zalika?

Zalika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 386,000
9 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 186,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
267,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zalika 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 2019 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 267,420 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zalika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zalikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zalika was born before 1992 — so the typical Zalika is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Zalika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (15)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,980
1975

Spellings of Zalika

Zalika is not the most common spelling — Alina is, with 11.4% against Zalika's 0.06%.

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 Zalika is used

Across 1910–2025, Zalika was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 595,543 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Zalika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zalika around the world

Where Zalika 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
    1997–1998
    #2,701
    in 1998
  • France
    2020–2020
    #7,751
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2006–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Zalika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,980
1975
Peak year
1992
15 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
236
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zalika

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

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Sibling names for Zalika

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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