Nakia
Nakia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,613 among girls’ names; 10,744 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,300 Americans named Nakia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 32 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakia?
#11,613 among girls’ names, 2025
Nakia fell from #7,501 in 2015 to #11,613 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
1,748 babies in 1974, the peak
Nakia peaked in 1974, when 1,748 babies were given it (1,135 girls, #226 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,613 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,846 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,215 | 8 | #9,475 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,630 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,831 | 6 | #11,712 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,546 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,744 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,853 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,688 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,125 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,501 | 8 | #9,298 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,633 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,260 | 9 | #8,561 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,071 | 7 | #10,420 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,768 | 8 | #9,341 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,275 | 5 | #13,646 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,393 | 6 | #12,007 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,411 | 11 | #7,552 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,912 | 14 | #6,164 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,340 | 15 | #5,704 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,153 | 15 | #5,481 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,778 | 21 | #4,211 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,965 | 24 | #3,691 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,569 | 19 | #4,278 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,393 | 24 | #3,580 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,450 | 29 | #3,044 |
| 1999 | 166 | #1,170 | 34 | #2,592 |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,083 | 32 | #2,629 |
| 1997 | 181 | #1,055 | 29 | #2,724 |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,109 | 34 | #2,359 |
| 1995 | 159 | #1,115 | 40 | #2,079 |
| 1994 | 186 | #1,001 | 36 | #2,240 |
| 1993 | 201 | #940 | 20 | #3,323 |
| 1992 | 209 | #930 | 22 | #3,072 |
| 1991 | 154 | #1,150 | 20 | #3,186 |
| 1990 | 143 | #1,192 | 11 | #4,888 |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,152 | 12 | #4,435 |
| 1988 | 125 | #1,207 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 188 | #895 | 7 | #5,890 |
| 1986 | 191 | #872 | 8 | #5,176 |
| 1985 | 279 | #655 | 11 | #3,958 |
| 1984 | 269 | #649 | 15 | #3,050 |
| 1983 | 218 | #749 | 16 | #2,873 |
| 1982 | 232 | #734 | 15 | #3,060 |
| 1981 | 254 | #687 | 13 | #3,352 |
| 1980 | 259 | #675 | 19 | #2,589 |
| 1979 | 270 | #645 | 31 | #1,819 |
| 1978 | 313 | #560 | 46 | #1,367 |
| 1977 | 364 | #512 | 69 | #1,045 |
| 1976 | 490 | #414 | 110 | #793 |
| 1975 | 972 | #251 | 514 | #337 |
| 1974 | 1,135 | #226 | 613 | #302 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,175 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nakia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,744 Americans recorded as Nakia, 81% are girls and 19% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nakia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakia, and how old are they?
10,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 10,744 Americans ever recorded as Nakia. The median Nakia alive today is 44 years old; half are between 32 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 8,260 people named Nakia (6,891 women and girls, 1,369 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 4,870 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 270 |
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).
Where are babies named Nakia born?
The states with the most babies named Nakia are New York, Illinois and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 888 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 638 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 588 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 505 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 498 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 456 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 447 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 441 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 401 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 362 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Nakia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nakia is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1973 it was given 4.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nakia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,522 babies since 1880, Nakia is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 37 babies (22%), the third most given that year.
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 Nakia
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 Nakia and names like it
- Compare Nakia and NakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNakia peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakia since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Nakia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nakia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.