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Zuleika

#6,836 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Zuleika has been given to 1,230 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #6,836 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Zuleika, 2025

1 in 195,000

Zuleika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zuleika: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Arabic

What Zuleika means

Zuleika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zuleika is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Zuleika comes through Arabic زُلَيْخَا.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,230 girls were recorded with the name Zuleika between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,410 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,241 in 2020 to #6,836 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,233 in 2015 to #6,836 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zuleika?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,836
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zuleika 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zuleika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zuleikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zuleika was born before 1997 — so the typical Zuleika is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,230
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (282).

Is Zuleika 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
+87
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,405
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−603
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.5%
Peak was 2007 (54)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,410
1993

Spellings of Zuleika

Zuleika is not the most common spelling — Zulema is, with 47.5% against Zuleika's 14.4%.

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 Zuleika is used

Across 1910–2025, Zuleika was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 152,861 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Zuleika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zuleika around the world

Where Zuleika 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
    1996–2012
    #4,171
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #479
    in 1986

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.

Zuleika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,836
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,405
Best rank ever
#2,410
1993
Peak year
2007
54 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,230
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Zuleika

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

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Sibling names for Zuleika

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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