Nakita
Nakita was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 3,018 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Nakita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,948, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
269 babies in 1986, the peak
Nakita peaked in 1986, when 269 girls were given it, #684 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,948 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,871 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,176 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,367 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,380 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,624 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,177 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,932 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,569 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,732 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #8,912 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,088 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,081 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,418 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,328 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,412 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,011 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,498 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,797 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,330 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,492 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,145 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,466 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,441 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,840 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,519 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,958 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,937 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,605 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,089 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,928 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 102 | #1,532 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,412 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 130 | #1,258 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 147 | #1,127 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 146 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 221 | #796 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 269 | #684 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,545 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,627 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,789 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,981 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,902 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,619 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,511 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 85 | #1,382 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 102 | #1,203 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,458 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 90 | #1,221 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,985 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,720 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,323 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,969 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,685 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,886 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakita has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nakita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakita, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,018 Americans ever recorded as Nakita. The median Nakita alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,578 people named Nakita (2,489 women and girls, 89 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,916 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 674 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 471 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 94 |
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 Nakita born?
The states with the most babies named Nakita are Texas, New York and Illinois, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 133 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 110 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 95 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 87 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 83 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 74 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 70 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 65 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Nakita 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,449 babies since 1880, Nakita is the most given (88% 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 Nakita
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 Nakita and names like it
- Compare Nakita and NaketaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNakita peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakita since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Nakita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nakita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.