Around the globe, Zaken (Закен 
, Zaken 
, זקן ) is a rare unisex first name. The forename Zaken is characteristic of Kazakhstan, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, Kyrgyzstan, where it is quite a rare primarily female, but very infrequently male name, and Israel, where it is a rare primarily masculine, but scarcely girly name. More prevalently, Zaken is the last name as well as the forename.