Zakai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- za-KY
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,286 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #563 for boys
Zakai is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pure, innocent”. In 2025 it ranked 1,286th for boys in the UK (23 babies) and 563rd for boys in the US (528 babies).
What does Zakai mean?
Hebrew: from Zakkai
“pure, innocent”
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was a 1st-century sage who founded the academy at Yavneh after the fall of Jerusalem.
Is Zakai a girl's or a boy's name?
Zakai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 boys in the UK and 528 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zakai in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,286th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 13,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 23 boys in the UK were named Zakai, making it the 1,286th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,581st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 27 boys.
Half of all the boys named Zakai in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,225th in England and Wales.
Zakai in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #1,286 |
| 2024 | 27 | #1,137 |
| 2023 | 25 | #1,214 |
| 2022 | 20 | #1,404 |
| 2021 | 17 | #1,547 |
| 2020 | 16 | #1,581 |
| 2019 | 17 | #1,543 |
| 2018 | 17 | #1,555 |
| 2017 | 13 | #1,922 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,512 |
| 2015 | 7 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 13 | #1,834 |
| 2013 | 5 | #3,466 |
| 2012 | 8 | #2,595 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #2,775 |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 4 | #3,836 |
| 2007 | 7 | #2,554 |
How popular is Zakai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 563rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 528 about 1 in 3,200 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 93% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 528 boys in the US were named Zakai, making it the 563rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 902nd. It first appears in the records in 1998.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 11 years. 2025 had the most boys named Zakai of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Zakai in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 580 boys in the US were given Zakai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #519, up from #563 for this spelling alone.
Zakai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 528 | #563 |
| 2024 | 473 | #604 |
| 2023 | 415 | #659 |
| 2022 | 374 | #705 |
| 2021 | 314 | #785 |
| 2020 | 249 | #902 |
| 2019 | 244 | #897 |
| 2018 | 242 | #894 |
| 2017 | 185 | #1,066 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,279 |
| 2015 | 104 | #1,555 |
| 2014 | 84 | #1,781 |
| 2013 | 95 | #1,612 |
| 2012 | 89 | #1,696 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,076 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,143 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,182 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,466 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,185 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,036 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,563 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,839 |
| 2003 | 21 | #3,971 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,470 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
Names like Zakai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Zayan, Zayaan, Zayd, Zakariya, Muhammad, Ibrahim, Ayyub, Eesa, Hamza, Yusuf, Zayn
Other spellings of Zakai
Names related to Zakai
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zakai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zakai, updated 20 October 2026.