Girls' name · since 1998
Jakyah
Jakyah has 294 recorded births since 1998 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2009 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #16,073 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,785 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 294
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
294 babies have been named Jakyah since 1998, making it today's #15785 girls' name.
Jakyah has 294 recorded births among girls since 1998, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15785 as of the latest data, more common than 9% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1998 to 2025.
- #16,073 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,785 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 294 born since 1998
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jakyah ranks #16,073 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,785 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 294 born since 1998, peaking in the 2000s.
- #16,073 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,785 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 294
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
Jakyah's 294 recorded births place it above 77.75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Jakyah compares
294 45th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Jakyah's all-time total is 22% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Jakyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 294 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 22 | 21 | 19,840 |
Jakyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jakyah's SSA record in two at 2010 and the more recent half accounts for 43% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 57%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2016, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2009 peak of 22, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jakyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–2025
- Peak year (2009)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Jakyah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (155 births, 53% of the file).
2000s was Jakyah's strongest decade.
155 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Jakyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 13
1990s
13 births
- 2000s
2000s
155 births
- 2010s
2010s
111 births
- 2020s 15
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 155 births (53% of all-time use).
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- Jakyah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (155 total births); usage has since declined to 15 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Jakyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2009)
Similar record span (~27 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1998–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jakyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.