In 2025, 40 US girls were named Zakiyah, making it the 3,777th most common girls’ name of the year, down 203 places from #3,574 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 44 girls named Zakiyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,965, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #2,407 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zakiyah in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 2,042 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 753 babies named Zakiyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 559 US girls were named Zakiyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zakiya (3,339 babies since 1880) and Zakia (1,740 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zakyiah and Sakiah are summarised on this page.