Rakiyah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rakiyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 470 babies named Rakiyah between 1994 and 2023, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rakiyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 41 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rakiyah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Rakiyah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Rakiyah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rakiyah 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 470 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.