Zaki

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Arabic: (zakiyy): pure, chaste, sinless. els, Jgw, ts! Lal Jl LS: lade « ua¥ "He said: I am only a Messenger of your Lord, to give you [Maryam] a son most pure." (surat Maryam 19:19). See Zaaki Sly. Comp

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈzɑki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zaki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.1K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈86,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZakiLatin(measured from records)
사키Hangul(measured from records)
ΖακιGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

(zakiyy): pure, chaste, sinless. els, Jgw, ts! Lal Jl LS: lade « ua¥ "He said: I am only a Messenger of your Lord, to give you [Maryam] a son most pure." (surat Maryam 19:19). See Zaaki Sly. Comp. Zaki (dhakiyy) 5s intelligent, bright, brilliant

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Zaki is read(measured from records)

Zaki is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Arabic45%

    (zakiyy): pure, chaste, sinless. els, Jgw, ts! Lal Jl LS: lade « ua¥ "He said: I am only a Messenger of your Lord, to give you [Maryam] a son most pure." (surat Maryam 19:19). See Zaaki Sly. Comp. Zaki (dhakiyy) 5s intelligent, bright, brilliant

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

    pure, sinless, chaste

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

    virtuous

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

    guiltless

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • Indonesian20%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Zaki in Indonesian.

  • English11%

    Zakinthos [Zante]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    island, Greece

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaki counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Zaki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#60≈86,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Zaki161
ID Indonesia#581≈28,000 est.≈1 in 9.4K—Zaki148
DZ Algeria#19≈21,000 est.≈1 in 2.1KlistedZaki57
AF Afghanistan#288≈15,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Zaki18
PK Pakistan#717≈15,000 est.≈1 in 15K1Zaki59
MA Morocco#45≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.6KlistedZaki79
MY Malaysia#146≈7,300 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Zaki86
US United States—1,3561 in 245K2.1KZaki257

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zaki is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Zākī, Žaki, Zakī, Zäki, Z̲akī

  • Persian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Iran, Pakistan, United States

    Also written Zakī, Z̲akī, Zâkï, Zākī, Закӣ

  • Swedish surname36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Žákî, Zâkï, Zãkī, Zäkï, Ẑẳki

  • Khmer surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, India, Morocco

    Also written Zâkï, Zaķi, Zãkí

  • Turkish given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Israel, Syria, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic

    Also written Zeki, זכי, זקי, Zacay, Zéki

  • Russian given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Заки, Баду, Закі, Жаки, Zaky

  • Bulgarian surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Заки, Žaki, Жаки, Zäki, Zāķi

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Souad Zaki, b. 1915Ahmed Zaki, b. 1949Mohamed Ahmed Zaki, b. 1956Ezzaki Badou, b. 1959Magda Zaki, b. 1962Maria Zaki, b. 1964Gihane Zaki, b. 1966Mona Zaki, b. 1977Amr Zaki, b. 1983Mostafa Ziko, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalالسيد Zaki المحترم،Dear Mr. Zaki, (English)
Informalمرحباً Zaki،Hi Zaki, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 79 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,522
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000898#25,754

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zaki mean, and where does it come from?
(zakiyy): pure, chaste, sinless. els, Jgw, ts! Lal Jl LS: lade « ua¥ "He said: I am only a Messenger of your Lord, to give you [Maryam] a son most pure." (surat Maryam 19:19). See Zaaki Sly. Comp. Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Zaki?
A machine transcription gives /ˈzɑki/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Zaki have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Zaki in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaki.
How common is the name Zaki?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,356 people named Zaki in 2010, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
How common is Zaki compared with other names?
In Egypt, Zaki is the 60th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zaki” — the 60th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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