Nakhi — boys' name
166 babies named Nakhi in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Nakhi was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Nakhi in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nakhi
The Social Security Administration has registered 166 babies named Nakhi between 1998 and 2023, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nakhi currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakhi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nakhi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nakhi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nakhi 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 166 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.
Nakhi at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nakhi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1998
- Peak year (2009)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
166 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 13 births in a single year.
Nakhi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 67 births that decade — 40% of Nakhi's all-time total
Nakhi decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 66 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Nakhi's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Nakhi by state
Where Nakhi concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 3.0% |
5 of 166 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.0% 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, 1998–2023 (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.