girls:
1.7k births since 1971
#4059 (29th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 2000
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1971
#6031 (22nd percentile)
The name Zakia is the #6,031 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,720 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 22.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,059 (29.0% percentile) for all time with 1,704 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2000.
Zakia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 2000 for boys).
The name Zakia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Zakia reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #670) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 56 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Zakia ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 13.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Zakia reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zakia".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Zakia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 22 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Zakiya" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Zakiya..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Zakia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Zakia is pronounced as ZAH-kee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zah-KEE-uh, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like Z AA1 K IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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