In 2025, 10 US girls were named Zakia, making it the 10,089th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,012 places from #11,101 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 girls named Zakia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,277, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #7,260 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 9 babies. In all, 1,740 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 441 babies named Zakia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 138 US girls were named Zakia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zakiya (3,339 babies since 1880), Zakiyah (2,042 babies since 1880) and Zaki (1,514 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zakee, Saki and Zahki are summarised on this page.