Zakhi
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAH-kee
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,538 for boys
Zakhi is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pure, virtuous”. In 2025 it ranked 4,538th for boys in the US (22 babies).
What does Zakhi mean?
Arabic: spelling of Zaki
“pure, virtuous”
From Arabic zaki, pure or virtuous; in some dialects the same sound also represents dhaki, intelligent.
Meaning borrowed from Zaki.
Is Zakhi a girl's or a boy's name?
Zakhi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zakhi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,538th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 78,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 22 boys in the US were named Zakhi, making it the 4,538th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,731st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 35 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had fewer boys named Zakhi than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Zakhi in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 boys in the US were given Zakhi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,526, up from #4,538 for this spelling alone.
Zakhi in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,538 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,710 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,876 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,295 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,731 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,222 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,582 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,326 |
| 2015 | 29 | #3,683 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,888 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,801 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,711 |
| 2011 | 25 | #3,992 |
| 2010 | 25 | #3,993 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,091 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,762 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,638 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Zakhi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Zayd, Zayan, Zamir, Hamza, Musa, Muhammad, Zayaan, Muhammadali, Ahmir, Zubair, Ziyad
Other spellings of Zakhi
Names related to Zakhi
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo
Sources
Figures from 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, “Zakhi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zakhi, updated 20 October 2026.