Nakira — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nakira

The Social Security Administration has registered 418 babies named Nakira between 1982 and 2019, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nakira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 32 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 217 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nakira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nakira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nakira 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 418 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.