Nakiya
Nakiya was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,393 among girls’ names; 1,802 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Nakiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakiya?
#7,393 among girls’ names, 2025
Nakiya fell from #5,413 in 2015 to #7,393 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 9.3 per million.
147 babies in 2001, the peak
Nakiya peaked in 2001, when 147 girls were given it, #1,309 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,393 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,736 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,955 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,176 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,866 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,277 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,951 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,998 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,007 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,873 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,413 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,634 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,508 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,094 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,704 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,145 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,033 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,605 | 38.1 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,429 | 40.6 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,999 | 52.6 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,174 | 46.0 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,901 | 53.9 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,294 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,704 | 60.1 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,309 | 81.6 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,876 | 50.1 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,213 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,745 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,081 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,412 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,630 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,667 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,480 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,188 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,320 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,350 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,610 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,001 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,467 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,442 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,791 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,129 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,703 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,279 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,786 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,454 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,769 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,866 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,180 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,844 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,399 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,720 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakiya has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nakiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakiya, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,802 Americans ever recorded as Nakiya. The median Nakiya alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,305 people named Nakiya (1,280 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 91 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 272 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 227 |
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).
How common is the spelling Nakiya?
Nakiya is a less common spelling of Nakia: SSA has recorded 1,802 Nakiya and 10,744 Nakia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,522 babies since 1880, Nakiya is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 37 babies (41%), the most given that year.
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 Nakiya
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 Nakiya and names like it
- Compare Nakiya and NakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNakiya peaked in 2001.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nakiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nakiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.