Nakeysha
Nakeysha was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 118 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakeysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakeysha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,099, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1978, the peak
Nakeysha peaked in 1978, when 15 girls were given it, #4,602 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #15,099 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,480 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,811 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,240 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,576 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,669 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,871 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,178 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,189 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,307 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 15 | #4,602 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,238 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,842 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,828 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,717 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakeysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakeysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakeysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakeysha, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Nakeysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 43 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 123 people named Nakeysha (122 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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, Nakeysha is the seventh most given (2.0% 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 Nakeysha
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 Nakeysha and names like it
- Compare Nakeysha and NakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNakeysha peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Nakeysha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nakeysha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.