Boys' name · since 2015
Nakhai
26 babies named Nakhai in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #27,025 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #13,254 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 26
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
26 babies have been named Nakhai since 2015, making it today's #13254 boys' name.
Nakhai has 26 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13254 as of the latest data, more common than 5% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #27,025 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #13,254 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 26 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nakhai ranks #27,025 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,254 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 26 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #27,025 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #13,254 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 26
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nakhai's 26 recorded births place it above 40.35% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nakhai compares
26 10th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Nakhai's all-time total is 93% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nakhai | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 26 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 34 | 22,252 |
Nakhai's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nakhai's full recorded timeline at 2022, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2015 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nakhai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2015)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Nakhai by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (15 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Nakhai's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Nakhai births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 15 births (58% of all-time use).
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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, 2015–2025 (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 Nakhai 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.