Nakai — #3056 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nakai

The Social Security Administration has registered 884 babies named Nakai between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nakai currently holds the #3056 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 54 babies received it in a single year. Nakai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 185 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 305 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nakai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nakai in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nakai 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 884 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.