Nakya
Nakya was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 620 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,014, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 2002, the peak
Nakya peaked in 2002, when 59 girls were given it, #2,627 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,014 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,794 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,259 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,999 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,691 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,650 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,047 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,426 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,440 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,089 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | #10,197 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,632 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,774 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,897 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,441 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,433 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,170 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,877 | 30.5 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,215 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,627 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,029 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,852 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,856 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,878 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,571 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,329 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,210 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,218 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,249 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,305 | 3.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,688 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,563 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,915 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,367 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakya, and how old are they?
An estimated 612 Americans named Nakya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 521 people named Nakya (517 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 Nakya?
Nakya is a less common spelling of Nakia: SSA has recorded 620 Nakya and 10,744 Nakia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,522 babies since 1880, Nakya is the sixth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 37 babies recorded by SSA was a Nakya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nakya
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 Nakya and names like it
- Compare Nakya and NakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNakya peaked in 2002.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakya since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Nakya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nakya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.