Zakkai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- za-KY
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #3,948 for boys
Zakkai is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pure, innocent”. In 2025 it ranked 3,948th for boys in the US (27 babies).
What does Zakkai mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Zakai; from Zakkai
“pure, innocent”
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was a 1st-century sage who founded the academy at Yavneh after the fall of Jerusalem.
Meaning borrowed from Zakai.
Is Zakkai a girl's or a boy's name?
Zakkai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zakkai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,948among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 27about 1 in 63,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 124% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 27 boys in the US were named Zakkai, making it the 3,948th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had the most boys named Zakkai of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Zakkai in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 580 boys in the US were given Zakkai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #519, up from #3,948 for this spelling alone.
Zakkai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,948 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
Names like Zakkai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zamir Azai Musa Zahir Zayan Zayd Jasai Salem Zymir Kasai Asaiah Zahari
Other spellings of Zakkai
Names related to Zakkai
More Hebrew names
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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, “Zakkai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zakkai, updated 20 October 2026.