Jakiah
Jakiah is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,880 among girls’ names and #10,100 among boys’, #14,631 among all names counting both); 558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakiah?
#15,880 among girls’ names, 2025
Jakiah fell from #7,098 in 2015 to #15,880 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 3.1 per million.
38 babies in 2004, the peak
Jakiah peaked in 2004, when 38 girls were given it, #3,772 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,880 | 7 | #10,100 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,277 | 6 | #11,496 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,139 | 5 | #13,008 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,771 | 8 | #9,337 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,614 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,108 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,994 | 5 | #12,941 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,415 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,026 | 7 | #10,140 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,756 | 6 | #11,283 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,098 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,832 | 5 | #12,852 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,175 | 6 | #11,313 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,971 | 6 | #11,366 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,120 | 5 | #13,108 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,051 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,139 | 5 | #13,251 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,018 | 7 | #10,333 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,152 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,794 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,627 | 7 | #9,529 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,772 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,896 | 7 | #9,066 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,332 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,747 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,789 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,812 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,072 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,178 | 5 | #9,872 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jakiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 558 Americans recorded as Jakiah, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jakiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 553 Americans named Jakiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 431 people named Jakiah (341 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 492 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,201 babies since 1880, Jakiah is the fourth most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 73 babies (16%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jakiah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Taegan | 1,500 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jakiah and names like it
- Compare Jakiah and JakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakiah peaked in 2004.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Jakiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.