Zaki is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zaki is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Zaki. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zaki is #2,284 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zaki.
In fact, the name Zaki did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Zaki seemed to be more popular than ever in 2008. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,970, 62 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zaki, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zaki was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Zaki a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,085 - with a total of 60 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Zaki in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Zaki is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey or New York. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Zaki live in New Jersey, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 191,857 men and boys in New Jersey for their name before you meet one who answers with Zaki.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Zaki is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.
If your name is Zaki and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zaki, you can simply say:
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Apple
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Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zaki
Zaki
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
K
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
A
K
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zaki sounds like this:
