The Zaki surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,356 people carried this name — #19,823 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 217,400 people counted. That is up 51% from 898 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Zaki surname
From the Arabic surname, from the adjective زكي (“chaste, pure”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Zaki» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 196 people named Zaki live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 95 people named Zaki.
Most of them — 72 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Zaki live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
215 people named Zaki are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Zaki,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ahmad Zaki 1894–1975 · writer
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Ahmad Zaki 1894–1975 · writer
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Souad Zaki 1915–2004 · singer
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Taha Zaki 1928–2017 · major general
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Taha Zaki 1928–2017 · major general
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Zaki.
- Zaid 552 · U.S. census
- Zaidi 2,851 · U.S. census
- Zaiter 173 · U.S. census
- Zajac 5,270 · U.S. census
- Zak 5,177 · U.S. census
- Zakarian 754 · U.S. census
- Zakrzewski 2,016 · U.S. census
- Zalewski 3,812 · U.S. census
- Zambelli 353 · U.S. census
- Zambetti 234 · U.S. census
- Zambon 353 · U.S. census
- Zamboni 341 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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