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.
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 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 14,247 of them was named Nakia, which outranked 91.3% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,196Laquisha126
- #1,196Reanna126
- #1,196Starla126
- #1,204Nakia125
- #1,204Camilla125
- #1,204Delisa125
- #1,204Fawn125
- #1,210Alishia124
- #1,210Cami124
- #1,210Channing124
Tied with 5 names at #1,204; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.