Jakiah — #16086 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jakiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 456 babies named Jakiah between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jakiah currently holds the #16086 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Jakiah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 90 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jakiah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 246 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jakiah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jakiah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jakiah 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 456 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.