Nakia
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #8,921
Given to girls 81.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 1,135 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,738since 1973
Nakia over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #3,361 | 49 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #2,397 | 80 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #2,328 | 81 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #2,140 | 86 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #1,769 | 108 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #1,947 | 93 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #1,564 | 119 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #1,384 | 137 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #1,447 | 127 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #1,169 | 166 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #1,081 | 179 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #1,053 | 181 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #1,106 | 164 | #2,332 | 34 |
| 1995 | #1,113 | 159 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #994 | 186 | #2,219 | 36 |
| 1993 | #938 | 201 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #929 | 209 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #1,150 | 154 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #1,193 | 143 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #1,149 | 143 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #1,204 | 125 | — | |
| 1987 | #893 | 188 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #867 | 191 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #654 | 279 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #648 | 269 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #748 | 218 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | #733 | 232 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #685 | 254 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #674 | 259 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #644 | 270 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | #557 | 313 | #1,352 | 46 |
| 1977 | #510 | 364 | #1,036 | 69 |
| 1976 | #414 | 490 | #790 | 110 |
| 1975 | #251 | 972 | #337 | 514 |
| 1974 | #226 | 1,135 | #302 | 613 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nakia! It came in at #6,666, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Nakia is popular in 1983
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#144 · 1 in 572
- Maryland#220 · 1 in 1,325
- North Carolina#336 · 1 in 2,567
- New Jersey#349 · 1 in 2,550
- Georgia#379 · 1 in 2,700
Best ever in a state: #45 in District of Columbia, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #144 | 10 | 1 in 572 |
| Maryland | #220 | 17 | 1 in 1,325 |
| North Carolina | #336 | 13 | 1 in 2,567 |
| New Jersey | #349 | 15 | 1 in 2,550 |
| Georgia | #379 | 13 | 1 in 2,700 |
| Virginia | #418 | 9 | 1 in 3,420 |
| Illinois | #510 | 18 | 1 in 4,044 |
| New York | #613 | 21 | 1 in 4,898 |
| Michigan | #620 | 9 | 1 in 6,138 |
| Louisiana | #650 | 6 | 1 in 5,128 |
| Ohio | #725 | 8 | 1 in 8,608 |
| Pennsylvania | #795 | 7 | 1 in 9,708 |
| Florida | #863 | 7 | 1 in 8,408 |
| California | #996 | 19 | 1 in 9,879 |
| Texas | #1,081 | 11 | 1 in 11,663 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nakia
- 3,323 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,917)
- 4,592 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #10,917)
- 3,651 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 6,440 spots in 1974 (#6,666 → #226)
- Biggest drop: 311 spots in 1988 (#893 → #1,204)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1974 at #226 (1,135 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1974–1987
- Highest: 1 in 1,293 girls born in 1974 were named Nakia (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.6% of all girls named Nakia (3,551) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 3,551 | #226 (1974) | #1,324 |
| 1980s | 2,158 | #648 (1984) | #826 |
| 1990s | 1,742 | #929 (1992) | #1,073 |
| 2000s | 942 | #1,384 (2001) | #2,123 |
| 2010s | 250 | #3,723 (2011) | #5,984 |
| 2020s | 95 | #5,126 (2023) | #7,482 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nakia in 1983
Top girls' names in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
girls
1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 7,663 of them was named Nakia, which outranked 93.8% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 112,035 of them was named Nakia, which outranked 62.1% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,676Tyreese17
- #2,676Wali17
- #2,676Yale17
- #2,787Nakia16
- #2,787Abdulrahman16
- #2,787Akiva16
- #2,787Alford16
- #2,912Adriana15
- #2,912Adriano15
- #2,912Agustine15
Tied with 124 names at #2,787; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.