Nakoa
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,602 for boys in 2025, 106 births
Given to boys 93.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 116 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,137since 1977
Nakoa 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 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,602 | 106 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #1,530 | 115 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,518 | 116 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,706 | 99 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,614 | 105 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #2,024 | 70 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,954 | 75 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,445 | 53 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | — | #3,776 | 28 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,138 | 24 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,582 | 29 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,714 | 20 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,793 | 17 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,573 | 16 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nakoa! It came in at #5,123, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nakoa
- 72 spots since 2024 (#1,530 → #1,602)
- 422 spots since 2020 (#2,024 → #1,602)
- 2,805 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #1,602)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2023 at #1,518 (116 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,746 boys born in 2023 were named Nakoa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,114 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 53.7% of all boys named Nakoa (611) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 21 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,693 |
| 1980s | 8 | #4,495 (1980) | #4,495 |
| 1990s | 41 | #6,496 (1996) | #7,523 |
| 2000s | 137 | #4,429 (2009) | #5,993 |
| 2010s | 319 | #1,954 (2019) | #3,914 |
| 2020s | 611 | #1,518 (2023) | #1,666 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nakoa in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 273,870 of them was named Nakoa, which outranked 25.3% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,582Zerrick7
- #4,582Zeyad7
- #4,582Zuberi7
- #5,123Nakoa6
- #5,123Aamir6
- #5,123Aaryn6
- #5,123Abbas6
- #5,845Aashish5
- #5,845Abby5
- #5,845Abdual5
Tied with 721 names at #5,123; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.