Nakesha
Nakesha was last recorded in 2002, when 7 babies were given it; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Nakesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,199, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1979, the peak
Nakesha peaked in 1979, when 87 girls were given it, #1,417 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #13,199 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,789 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,728 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,620 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,394 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,596 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,454 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,868 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,213 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,336 | 13.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 22 | #4,636 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,504 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,482 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,365 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,955 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,472 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,707 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,984 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,404 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,010 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,101 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,822 | 36.6 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,698 | 40.4 |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,417 | 54.2 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,701 | 40.5 |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,423 | 51.5 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,628 | 41.6 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,950 | 31.6 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,537 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,903 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,336 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,181 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakesha, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,050 Americans ever recorded as Nakesha. The median Nakesha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 836 people named Nakesha (836 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,020 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 439 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 517 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 53 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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, Nakesha is the third most given (18% 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 Nakesha
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 Nakesha and names like it
- Compare Nakesha and NakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNakesha peaked in 1979.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Nakesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nakesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.