Nakiah
Nakiah was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 624 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakiah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,744, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 2007, the peak
Nakiah peaked in 2007, when 39 girls were given it, #4,034 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,744 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,636 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,782 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,366 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,103 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,997 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,689 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,888 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,568 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,952 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #9,439 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,928 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,493 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,933 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,336 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,535 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,034 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,234 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,666 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,905 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,086 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,700 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,121 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,440 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,582 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,751 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,713 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,011 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,505 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,369 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,517 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,089 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,481 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,944 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,790 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,856 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,577 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,847 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,719 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 616 Americans named Nakiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 488 people named Nakiah (456 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 589 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Nakiah?
Nakiah is a less common spelling of Nakia: SSA has recorded 624 Nakiah and 10,744 Nakia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,969 babies since 1880, Nakiah is the fourth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 37 babies recorded by SSA was a Nakiah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nakiah
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 Nakiah and names like it
- Compare Nakiah and NakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNakiah peaked in 2007.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nakiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nakiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.