Takeyah — girls' name
189 babies named Takeyah in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
76% of everyone ever named Takeyah was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Takeyah in 1992 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Takeyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 189 babies named Takeyah between 1990 and 2011, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Takeyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Takeyah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 143 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Takeyah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Takeyah 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 189 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.
Takeyah at a glance
Last recorded 2011Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Takeyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2011–1990
- Peak year (1992)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2011.
189 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1992 with 23 births in a single year.
Takeyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 143 births that decade — 76% of Takeyah's all-time total
Takeyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 143 births
- Runner-up 41 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Takeyah's strongest decade
143 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 76% 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, 1990–2011 (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.