Zakiyah
#3,712 for girls in 2025, 40 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 108 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,035since 1976
Zakiyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zakiyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,712 | 40 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #3,014 | 55 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,491 | 44 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,823 | 58 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,245 | 49 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,200 | 86 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,517 | 71 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,442 | 74 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,626 | 67 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,205 | 85 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,103 | 91 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,258 | 85 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,064 | 99 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,949 | 108 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,101 | 96 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,081 | 94 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,457 | 71 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,345 | 73 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,663 | 56 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | — | |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zakiyah! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zakiyah is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#796 · 1 in 3,835
- Illinois#1,055 · 1 in 6,172
- Ohio#1,153 · 1 in 7,397
- North Carolina#1,420 · 1 in 9,077
- Georgia#1,473 · 1 in 9,425
Best ever in a state: #418 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #796 | 5 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 6,172 |
| Ohio | #1,153 | 7 | 1 in 7,397 |
| North Carolina | #1,420 | 5 | 1 in 9,077 |
| Georgia | #1,473 | 5 | 1 in 9,425 |
| Texas | #2,140 | 9 | 1 in 17,764 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Zakiyah
- 196 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #3,712)
- 889 spots since 2020 (#2,823 → #3,712)
- 1,330 spots since 2015 (#2,382 → #3,712)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2008 at #1,949 (108 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,509 girls born in 2008 were named Zakiyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,182 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.0% of all girls named Zakiyah (753) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,284 (1976) | #9,284 |
| 1980s | 47 | #6,291 (1984) | #8,897 |
| 1990s | 192 | #3,573 (1998) | #5,490 |
| 2000s | 753 | #1,949 (2008) | #2,421 |
| 2010s | 743 | #2,103 (2011) | #2,483 |
| 2020s | 295 | #2,823 (2020) | #3,265 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zakiyah in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 20,075 of them was named Zakiyah, which outranked 88.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #2,184Zylah87
- #2,200Zakiyah86
- #2,200Audrie86
- #2,200Avamarie86
- #2,200Baileigh86
- #2,221Ahana85
- #2,221Alyse85
- #2,221Ariyana85
Tied with 20 names at #2,200; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.