Girls' name · since 1999
Nakaiya
166 babies named Nakaiya in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #21,738 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 166
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Nakaiya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 166 recorded since 1999.
Nakaiya has 166 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, 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 1999 to 2020.
- #21,738 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 166 born since 1999
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nakaiya ranks #21,738 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 166 born since 1999, peaking in the 2000s.
- #21,738 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 166
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Nakaiya's 166 recorded births place it above 69.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nakaiya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Nakaiya splits its recorded history at 2007: 39% of all births land in the more recent half, 61% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 2012 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2004 peak of 20 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Nakaiya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2020
- Peak year (2004)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Nakaiya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (125 births, 75% of the file).
2000s was Nakaiya's strongest decade.
125 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 75% of all-time use.
Nakaiya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 9
1990s
9 births
- 2000s
2000s
125 births
- 2010s 26
2010s
26 births
- 2020s 6
2020s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 125 births (75% of all-time use).
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- Nakaiya's decade-level peak was the 2000s (125 total births); usage has since declined to 6 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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Two nationwide peer axes for Nakaiya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~21 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, 1999–2020 (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 Nakaiya 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.