Nekia
Nekia was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 861 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nekia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nekia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,383, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1975, the peak
Nekia peaked in 1975, when 70 babies were given it (54 girls, #1,748 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,383 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,881 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,686 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,214 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,516 | 6.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,743 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,904 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,078 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,410 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,399 | 8.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 20 | #5,000 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,455 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,977 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,200 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,979 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,159 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,697 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,746 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,859 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,222 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,978 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,736 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,765 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,041 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,206 | 27.2 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,077 | 30.0 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,635 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,374 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,178 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,205 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,765 | 36.9 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,748 | 37.0 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,900 | 31.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nekia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 861 Americans recorded as Nekia, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nekia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nekia, and how old are they?
An estimated 827 Americans named Nekia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 35 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Nekia (624 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,464 babies since 1880, Nekia is the second most given (25% of them).
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 Nekia
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 Nekia and names like it
- Compare Nekia and NnekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNekia peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nekia since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Nekia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nekia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.