Nekia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nekia

The Social Security Administration has registered 811 babies named Nekia between 1974 and 2009, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nekia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 54 babies received it in a single year. Nekia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 50 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nekia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 308 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nekia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Nekia in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nekia 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 811 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.