Nakaya — girls' name
270 babies named Nakaya in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
64% of everyone ever named Nakaya was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Nakaya in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nakaya
The Social Security Administration has registered 270 babies named Nakaya between 1993 and 2022, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nakaya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakaya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nakaya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nakaya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nakaya 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 270 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.
Nakaya at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nakaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1993
- Peak year (2002)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
270 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 27 births in a single year.
Nakaya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 172 births that decade — 64% of Nakaya's all-time total
Nakaya decade highlights
- Peak decade 172 births
- Runner-up 57 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Nakaya's strongest decade
172 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 64% of all-time use.
Nakaya by state
Where Nakaya concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 6 | 2.2% |
6 of 270 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 2.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.