Jakiya
Jakiya was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,000 among girls’ names; 1,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Jakiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakiya?
#6,000 among girls’ names, 2025
Jakiya fell from #4,025 in 2015 to #6,000 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.7 to 12.4 per million.
100 babies in 2002, the peak
Jakiya peaked in 2002, when 100 girls were given it, #1,794 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,000 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,380 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,509 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,102 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,510 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,172 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,153 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,870 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,141 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,698 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,025 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,824 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,875 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,233 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,287 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,949 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,737 | 35.9 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,366 | 43.4 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,301 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,041 | 51.0 |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,064 | 49.2 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,195 | 44.1 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,071 | 47.1 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,794 | 55.7 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,981 | 47.8 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,716 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,798 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,280 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,165 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,916 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,719 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,004 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,776 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,312 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,520 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakiya, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,432 Americans ever recorded as Jakiya. The median Jakiya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,035 people named Jakiya (1,015 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 53 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 289 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jakiya born?
The states with the most babies named Jakiya are Mississippi, Georgia and North Carolina, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 100 | not ranked | 6.9× |
| Georgia | 97 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| North Carolina | 74 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 58 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 51 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 51 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 22 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Jakiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakiya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1988 it was given 6.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jakiya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,201 babies since 1880, Jakiya is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 73 babies (27%), again the second most given.
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 Jakiya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Jakiya and names like it
- Compare Jakiya and JakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakiya peaked in 2002.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jakiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.