Zakiyyah
Zakiyyah is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197871 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1975
- 1,163people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,163 girls have been named Zakiyyah in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 71 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 71 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1990s alone account for 29%.
By decade
In 1978, its biggest year
Zakiyyah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1978 were Jennifer, Melissa, Jessica, Amy and Heather. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Zakiyyah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sommerpeak 1977
- Somerpeak 1978
- Sumerpeak 1977
- Malikahpeak 1979
- Chasitypeak 1976
- Jamaicapeak 1977
- Atiyapeak 1981
- Akilahpeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.