Meaning not yet researched.
Zakiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,342 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,342 in 1997; #4,264 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zakiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,264 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,342.
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Zakiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,342 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 129 (1997).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Zakiya, making it the 4,264th most common girls’ name of the year, down 374 places from #3,890 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 39 girls named Zakiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,342, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #2,589 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakiya in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 9 babies. In all, 3,339 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 928 babies named Zakiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 410 US girls were named Zakiya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zakiyah (2,042 babies since 1880), Zakia (1,740 babies since 1880) and Zaki (1,514 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zakiyyah, Zakiah and Sakia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zakiyyah (1,163), Zakiah (716), Sakia (263), Sakiya (243), Sakiyah (229), Zakyah (201), Zakya (199), Zakeya (184), Zakyia (153), Zakye (131), Zakkiyya (75), Zakiyya (39), and more.
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 Zakiya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,071 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,225 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,955 | — | — |
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).