Takiah
Takiah was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 107 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takiah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,631, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2002, the peak
Takiah peaked in 2002, when 13 girls were given it, #8,225 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,631 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,549 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,726 | 6.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,221 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,797 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,900 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,044 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,877 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,280 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,225 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #15,132 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,814 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,231 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,243 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 106 Americans named Takiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 18 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 157 people named Takiah (152 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Takiah?
Takiah is a less common spelling of Takiyah: SSA has recorded 107 Takiah and 1,973 Takiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,844 babies since 1880, Takiah is the eighth most given (1.8% 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 Takiah
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 Takiah and names like it
- Compare Takiah and TakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTakiah peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Takiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Takiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.