Nakia — #7671 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Nakia

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,730 babies named Nakia between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nakia currently holds the #7671 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 1,135 babies received it in a single year. Nakia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,006 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakia performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 3,551 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nakia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 778 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Nakia in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nakia 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 8,730 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.