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Zakaria vs Zakyius

American parents have registered 3,349 Zakarias since 1880, against 65 Zakyiuses. Zakaria is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zakaria against Zakyius, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zakaria Zakyius

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Zakaria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Zakaria had 114 and Zakyius had 22.

Side by side

  Zakaria Zakyius
Total US births 3,34965
Most in one year 17527
Babies in 2025 11422
Estimated living today 3,30070
Median age today 131
Peak year 20172024
Best rank 1,256th boys3,986th boys
Rank in 2025 1,520th4,539th
First recorded 19802023
Girls / boys 466 / 2,8830 / 65

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zakarias alive today are over 13; half the Zakyiuses are over 1. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zakaria and Zakyius.