Meaning not yet researched.
Zakai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 528 in 2025. Its best rank was #563 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zakai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#563 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zakai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 528 boys in 2025. Peak: #563 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 528 (2025).
In 2025, 528 US boys were named Zakai, making it the 563rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 41 places from #604 in 2024. That is 55 more than the 473 boys named Zakai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #563, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 528. For comparison, it was #1,566 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakai in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 6 babies. In all, 4,070 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,366 babies named Zakai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,166 US boys were named Zakai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 528. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,235 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zakai ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #167 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Sakai, Zaccai and Zahkai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sakai (644), Zaccai (539), Zahkai (149), Zakkai (140), Sakae (115), Zakaiya (88), Zacai (80), Zakaya (60), Zakaii (36), Sacai (13), Zakaiah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zakai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 7 | #167 | — |
| Missouri | 18 | #367 | — |
| Georgia | 33 | #369 | #1,209 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #396 | #1,330 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #410 | — |
| Florida | 48 | #411 | #1,373 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #428 | — |
| South Carolina | 12 | #437 | — |
| Nevada | 7 | #441 | — |
| Louisiana | 11 | #449 | — |
| Virginia | 18 | #450 | — |
| New Jersey | 18 | #450 | #956 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #459 | #1,305 |
| Illinois | 20 | #511 | — |
| Maryland | 10 | #514 | — |
| Mississippi | 6 | #521 | — |
| Kansas | 7 | #523 | — |
| Colorado | 11 | #534 | — |
| Michigan | 16 | #539 | — |
| Ohio | 20 | #539 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #590 | — |
| New York | 26 | #600 | #1,826 |
| Washington | 12 | #602 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #620 | — |
| Arizona | 11 | #633 | — |
| Texas | 47 | #648 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #772 | — |
| California | 32 | #796 | #1,867 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 528 | #563 |
| 2024 | — | — | 473 | #604 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,420 | 415 | #661 |
| 2022 | — | — | 374 | #706 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,201 | 314 | #785 |
| 2020 | — | — | 249 | #904 |
| 2019 | — | — | 244 | #904 |
| 2018 | — | — | 242 | #898 |
| 2017 | — | — | 185 | #1,072 |
| 2016 | — | — | 142 | #1,287 |
| 2015 | — | — | 104 | #1,566 |
| 2014 | — | — | 84 | #1,793 |
| 2013 | — | — | 95 | #1,623 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,478 | 89 | #1,710 |
| 2011 | — | — | 64 | #2,103 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,168 |
| 2009 | — | — | 61 | #2,202 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,514 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,212 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,061 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,612 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,884 |
| 2003 | — | — | 21 | #4,112 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,670 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,408 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,620 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).