Nakisha
Nakisha was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 2,459 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Nakisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 40 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,732, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
203 babies in 1978, the peak
Nakisha peaked in 1978, when 203 girls were given it, #760 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,732 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,997 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,331 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,855 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,659 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,098 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,043 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,155 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,877 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,896 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 | #8,061 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,404 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,797 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,697 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,641 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,666 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,970 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,954 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,910 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,719 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,464 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,490 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,946 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,673 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,311 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 147 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 169 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 178 | #863 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 193 | #819 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 203 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 177 | #843 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 170 | #822 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 161 | #839 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 112 | #1,060 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,546 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,496 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,017 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakisha 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 Nakisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakisha, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,459 Americans ever recorded as Nakisha. The median Nakisha alive today is 46 years old; half are between 40 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,928 people named Nakisha (1,920 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,385 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 1,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 125 |
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 Nakisha born?
The states with the most babies named Nakisha are New York, Texas and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 136 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 123 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 116 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 111 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 103 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 100 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 85 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 65 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Nakisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nakisha is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1971 it was given 1.7 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 Nakisha 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,933 babies since 1880, Nakisha is the most given (41% of them).
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 Nakisha
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 Nakisha and names like it
- Compare Nakisha and NakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNakisha peaked in 1978.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Nakisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nakisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.