Nakye — boys' name
39 babies named Nakye in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
59% of everyone ever named Nakye was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Nakye in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nakye
The Social Security Administration has registered 39 babies named Nakye between 2005 and 2017, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nakye currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nakye performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Nakye shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nakye 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 39 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.
Nakye at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nakye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2005
- Peak year (2009)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 13 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
39 total births across 13 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 9 births in a single year.
Nakye by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 23 births that decade — 59% of Nakye's all-time total
Nakye decade highlights
- Peak decade 23 births
- Runner-up 16 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Nakye's strongest decade
23 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 59% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2005–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.