Zakirah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zah-KEE-ruh
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zakirah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one who remembers God”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Zakirah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Zakira; feminine of Zakir
“one who remembers God”
The feminine of Zakir, from the same Arabic root as dhikr, the remembrance of God in prayer.
Meaning borrowed from Zakira.
Is Zakirah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zakirah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zakirah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Zakirah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zakirah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 13 | #2,103 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
How popular is Zakirah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Zakirah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Zakirah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zakirah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Zakirah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zainab, Safa, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Aaminah, Ayah, Hafsa, Safiya, Umaymah, Hiba
Names related to Zakirah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Zakirah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zakirah, updated 20 October 2026.