Zaki
One of the rarest names on record here: just 27 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in years. Its Slavic root means "pure".
Zaki Pronunciation
Zaki is pronounced ZAH-kee (/ˈzaki/).
What Zaki means
Where Zaki comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zaki sits on Slavic ground. The origin is Slavic, and the short meaning people give it now is "pure." That reading arrived after the fact. Across the Arabic world the same sound, zakī, means pure and upright, and this association is what most carriers hear in the name today.
The Arabic link is easy to trace. Zakī has been borne by real people, among them Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, the Egyptian philosopher who died in 1993. He wrote plainly and taught logic, so the name reads as clean, honest, sound of mind. In Poland the form stays short and unbending. Four letters, one clear stress.
Picture a class register at a Polish school, the surname column filling with long entries, and Zaki standing apart by its brevity. There is no diminutive form, and no cross-gender variant to soften it. The name gives a teacher little to shorten. What the register shows is the whole of it, Zaki, and the meaning it now carries, pure.
How many people are named Zaki
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Zaki. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8202 among male names.
Zaki as a middle name
Zaki is a first name for 27 men in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1780th, between Xawier (24) and Bao (23).
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#1778 Wael24
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#1779 Xawier24
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#1780 Zaki24
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#1781 Bao23
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#1782 Bart23