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Zeki

#13,900 in 2025Boys' name

Intelligent, clever

Zeki has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #13,900 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Zeki, 2025

1 in 663,000

Zeki over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeki: meaning, origin, and history

Intelligent, clever

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zeki means

Zeki means “intelligent, clever”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zeki is used in Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ze.ˈci/ for Zeki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 boys were recorded with the name Zeki between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2020; its best national rank was #7,485 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,485 in 2020 to #13,900 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,023 in 2015 to #13,900 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 Zeki?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,900
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeki 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zekis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeki was born before 2017 — so the typical Zeki is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
117
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Zeki 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
+363
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,415
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,877
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2020 (11)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,485
2020

Spellings of Zeki

Zeki is not the most common spelling — Levi is, with 50.0% against Zeki's 0.03%.

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.

Zeki around the world

Where Zeki 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #5,897
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Zeki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,900
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,415
Best rank ever
#7,485
2020
Peak year
2020
11 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Zeki

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

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Sibling names for Zeki

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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