Nakiyah
Nakiyah was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,776 among girls’ names; 1,243 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Nakiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakiyah?
#7,776 among girls’ names, 2025
Nakiyah fell from #5,080 in 2015 to #7,776 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 8.7 per million.
81 babies in 2005, the peak
Nakiyah peaked in 2005, when 81 girls were given it, #2,247 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,776 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,486 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,890 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,631 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,886 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,547 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,606 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,727 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,661 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,126 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,080 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,126 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,301 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,305 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,891 | 34.1 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,580 | 39.9 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,844 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,551 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,701 | 35.4 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,341 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,247 | 43.8 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,467 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,455 | 36.7 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,997 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,528 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,382 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,683 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,893 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,620 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,626 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,527 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,370 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,248 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakiyah, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,243 Americans ever recorded as Nakiyah. The median Nakiyah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 892 people named Nakiyah (885 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 901 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 296 |
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 Nakiyah?
Nakiyah is a less common spelling of Nakia: SSA has recorded 1,243 Nakiyah and 10,744 Nakia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,399 babies since 1880, Nakiyah is the third most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 37 babies (38%), the second 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 Nakiyah
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 Nakiyah and names like it
- Compare Nakiyah and NakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNakiyah peaked in 2005.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Nakiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nakiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.