Zakaria
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271 · #1,520 for boys in 2025, 114 births
Given to boys 86.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,883since 1980
Zakaria over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,520 | 114 | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #1,387 | 135 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,530 | 115 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #1,815 | 89 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #1,740 | 93 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,592 | 102 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,548 | 108 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,513 | 113 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #1,256 | 145 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #1,548 | 107 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #1,353 | 129 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #1,559 | 102 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #1,361 | 124 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | #1,626 | 95 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 | #1,429 | 115 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #1,372 | 123 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #1,539 | 107 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #1,692 | 90 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #1,698 | 83 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #1,546 | 91 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #1,748 | 72 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #1,557 | 79 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | #1,960 | 55 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | — | #1,966 | 49 | |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,126 | 43 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | — | #3,303 | 20 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,325 | 18 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,467 | 17 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,811 | 10 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zakaria! It came in at #5,525, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zakaria is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#416 · 1 in 4,072
- New York#1,134 · 1 in 14,416
- California#1,651 · 1 in 34,760
Best ever in a state: #328 in Minnesota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #416 | 7 | 1 in 4,072 |
| New York | #1,134 | 8 | 1 in 14,416 |
| California | #1,651 | 7 | 1 in 34,760 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zakaria
- 133 spots since 2024 (#1,387 → #1,520)
- 72 spots since 2020 (#1,592 → #1,520)
- 167 spots since 2015 (#1,353 → #1,520)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2017 at #1,256 (145 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,762 boys born in 2024 were named Zakaria (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,983 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,256 in 2017, was only 1 in 12,765 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.3% of all boys named Zakaria (1,161) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 43 | #4,811 (1989) | #5,421 |
| 1990s | 273 | #1,966 (1999) | #2,963 |
| 2000s | 758 | #1,539 (2009) | #1,771 |
| 2010s | 1,161 | #1,256 (2017) | #1,457 |
| 2020s | 648 | #1,387 (2024) | #1,597 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zakaria in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 196,328 of them was named Zakaria, which outranked 44.2% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,584Zohra10
- #8,584Zola10
- #8,584Zori10
- #9,260Zakaria9
- #9,260Aalliyah9
- #9,260Aastha9
- #9,260Abbe9
- #10,122Aaniyah8
- #10,122Aasiyah8
- #10,122Abbegale8
Tied with 861 names at #9,260; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 44,450 of them was named Zakaria, which outranked 81.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,094Tobin44
- #2,094Wil44
- #2,094Yanni44
- #2,126Zakaria43
- #2,126Aramis43
- #2,126Chayse43
- #2,126Christon43
- #2,157Alfonzo42
- #2,157Anand42
- #2,157Armin42
Tied with 30 names at #2,126; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.