Zuleika
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Zuleika is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Zuleika mean?
Arabic
A female given name from Arabic.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Zuleika a girl's or a boy's name?
Zuleika is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zuleika in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 7 girls.
Zuleika in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Zuleika in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Zuleika, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 54 girls. It first appears in the records in 1967.
Half of all the girls named Zuleika in the US since 1880 were born between 1987 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zuleika in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,034 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,459 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,061 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,570 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,168 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,733 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,937 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,672 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,531 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,375 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,139 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,784 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,292 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,887 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,388 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,028 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,754 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,965 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,207 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,161 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,516 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,902 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,196 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,837 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,864 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,403 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,862 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,154 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,957 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,808 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,760 |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,972 |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,041 |
Names like Zuleika
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Khadija Halima Amira Zainab Aaliyah Hiba Hafsa Safiya Huda Zahara Faiza
Names related to Zuleika
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
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, “Zuleika: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zuleika, updated 20 October 2026.