Jakaya — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jakaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 220 babies named Jakaya between 1994 and 2022, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jakaya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jakaya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 136 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jakaya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Jakaya in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jakaya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 220 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.