Nakoa — #1541 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nakoa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,030 babies named Nakoa between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nakoa currently holds the #1541 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 116 babies received it in a single year. Nakoa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 68 additional births since 2010.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakoa performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 504 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nakoa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 180 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nakoa in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nakoa 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 1,030 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.