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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| 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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 229,610 of them was named Nakoa, which outranked 31.0% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #10,917Zurianna8
- #10,917Zynori8
- #10,917Zyorah8
- #11,932Nakoa7
- #11,932Aalaiyah7
- #11,932Aalina7
- #11,932Aamani7
- #13,208Aadhirai6
- #13,208Aadhyasri6
- #13,208Aafia6
Tied with 1,275 names at #11,932; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 16,114 of them was named Nakoa, which outranked 88.5% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,585Tariq107
- #1,585Terrence107
- #1,585Zohan107
- #1,602Nakoa106
- #1,602Alton106
- #1,602Amin106
- #1,602Canyon106
- #1,609Ciaran105
- #1,609Cristobal105
- #1,609Cru105
Tied with 6 names at #1,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.