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 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 3,642 of them was named Zakai, which outranked 95.8% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.