Zakai
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197 · #563 for boys in 2025, 528 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 528 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,052since 1998
Zakai over time
Rank among boys' names. Zakai has never cracked the top 500 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 | — | #563 | 528 | |
| 2024 | — | #604 | 473 | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #659 | 415 |
| 2022 | — | #705 | 374 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #785 | 314 |
| 2020 | — | #902 | 249 | |
| 2019 | — | #897 | 244 | |
| 2018 | — | #894 | 242 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,066 | 185 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,279 | 142 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,555 | 104 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,781 | 84 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,613 | 95 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,697 | 89 |
| 2011 | — | #2,077 | 64 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,144 | 62 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,183 | 61 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,467 | 51 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,185 | 61 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,037 | 65 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,567 | 43 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,843 | 36 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,976 | 21 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zakai! It came in at #8,479, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zakai
- 41 spots since 2024 (#604 → #563)
- 339 spots since 2020 (#902 → #563)
- 992 spots since 2015 (#1,555 → #563)
- Biggest jump: 172 spots in 2018 (#1,066 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 5 spots in 2020 (#897 → #902)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2025 at #563 (528 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,235 boys born in 2025 were named Zakai (0.03%)
- 58.1% of all boys named Zakai (2,353) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 15 | #6,530 (1999) | #7,505 |
| 2000s | 373 | #2,037 (2006) | #3,663 |
| 2010s | 1,311 | #894 (2018) | #1,500 |
| 2020s | 2,353 | #563 (2025) | #703 |
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.
Zakai in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 273,477 of them was named Zakai, which outranked 23.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,206Zurina7
- #12,206Zylani7
- #12,206Zymirah7
- #13,464Zakai6
- #13,464Aadhvika6
- #13,464Aakifah6
- #13,464Aaleya6
- #15,251Aabha5
- #15,251Aadhirai5
- #15,251Aadvi5
Tied with 1,786 names at #13,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 5,572 of them was named Zakai, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.