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

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Peak · boys
2023 · 116 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,137
since 1977

Nakoa over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327#1,602106
2024#8,44312#1,530115
2023#10,3129#1,518116
2022#9,68010#1,70699
2021#12,2067#1,614105
2020#13,4536#2,02470
2019#12,4487#1,95475
2018#15,6825#2,44553
2017#12,7137#3,12337
2016#3,77628
2015#4,40722
2014#4,13824
2013#3,58229
2012#5,03518
2011#5,43316
2010#16,9925#5,25117
2009#4,42922
2008#4,71420
2007#8,1739
2006#5,78114
2005#7,09610
2004#4,79317
2003#7,8318
2002#6,52210
2001#6,01311
2000#4,57316
1999#7,8747
1998#7,5607
1997#6,6188
1996#6,4968
1995#7,7926
1994#8,8005
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First appearance
1977

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
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,518 (116 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,746
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 53.7% of all boys named Nakoa (611) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s21#4,403 (1979)#4,693
1980s8#4,495 (1980)#4,495
1990s41#6,496 (1996)#7,523
2000s137#4,429 (2009)#5,993
2010s319#1,954 (2019)#3,914
2020s611#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 2022

girls
#9,680
10 births · 1 in 164,013 girls
boys
#1,706
99 births · 1 in 17,636 boys

Top girls' names in 2022

  1. #1Olivia16,670
  2. #2Emma14,512
  3. #3Charlotte12,952
  4. #4Amelia12,415
  5. #5Sophia12,382
  6. #6Isabella11,761
  7. #7Ava11,107
  8. #8Mia11,077
  9. #9Evelyn9,332
  10. #10Luna8,977
  11. #9,680Nakoa10

Top boys' names in 2022

  1. #1Liam20,579
  2. #2Noah18,758
  3. #3Oliver15,176
  4. #4James12,119
  5. #5Elijah12,094
  6. #6William11,356
  7. #7Henry11,272
  8. #8Lucas10,973
  9. #9Benjamin10,912
  10. #10Theodore10,824
  11. #1,706Nakoa99
More about 2022

girls

1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 164,013 of them was named Nakoa, which outranked 45.5% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Nakoa
  1. #9,056Zohal11
  2. #9,056Zoriyah11
  3. #9,056Zuree11
  4. #9,680Nakoa10
  5. #9,680Aanaya10
  6. #9,680Aanika10
  7. #9,680Aashi10
  8. #10,383Aafiyah9
  9. #10,383Aaleah9
  10. #10,383Aalina9

Tied with 702 names at #9,680; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2021
Risers
  1. 698Wrenlee#1,410#712
  2. 686Neriah#1,680#994
  3. 487Arlet#1,229#742
  4. 424Georgina#1,304#880
  5. 413Amiri#1,293#880
Fallers
  1. 282Tatiana#992#1,274
  2. 245Alaiya#721#966
  3. 239Aarna#967#1,206
  4. 231Jaylene#975#1,206
  5. 227Aviana#521#748

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 17,636 of them was named Nakoa, which outranked 88.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Nakoa
  1. #1,700Wolf100
  2. #1,700Yohan100
  3. #1,700Zaidyn100
  4. #1,706Nakoa99
  5. #1,706Armaan99
  6. #1,706Baron99
  7. #1,706Cosmo99
  8. #1,720Avyan98
  9. #1,720Clint98
  10. #1,720Corbyn98

Tied with 13 names at #1,706; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2021
Risers
  1. 988Dutton#1,823#835
  2. 489Kayce#1,076#587
  3. 412Chosen#1,307#895
  4. 396Khaza#1,230#834
  5. 348Eithan#849#501
Fallers
  1. 324Jacoby#885#1,209
  2. 243Turner#937#1,180
  3. 233Aydin#897#1,130
  4. 218Juelz#991#1,209
  5. 216Jamal#868#1,084

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2022