Nakeesha
Nakeesha was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 193 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakeesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakeesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,342, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1978, the peak
Nakeesha peaked in 1978, when 23 girls were given it, #3,347 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,342 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,097 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,990 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,147 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,571 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,476 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,474 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,297 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,464 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,949 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,854 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,345 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,278 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,154 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,618 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,007 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,347 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,116 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,046 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,289 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,365 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,314 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakeesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakeesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakeesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakeesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 185 Americans named Nakeesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 39 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Nakeesha (168 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,933 babies since 1880, Nakeesha is the sixth most given (3.3% of them).
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 Nakeesha
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 Nakeesha and names like it
- Compare Nakeesha and NakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNakeesha peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Nakeesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nakeesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.