Takira
Takira was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 978 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takira?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,056, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1998, the peak
Takira peaked in 1998, when 60 girls were given it, #2,363 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #15,056 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,911 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,332 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,864 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,763 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,072 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,001 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,108 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,313 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,601 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 37 | #4,184 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,470 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,840 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,351 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,395 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,157 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,459 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,004 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,773 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,392 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,846 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,363 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,994 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,351 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,652 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,691 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,280 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,362 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,157 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,610 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,806 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,618 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,581 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,936 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,113 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,943 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,112 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,103 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,249 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,594 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takira, and how old are they?
An estimated 963 Americans named Takira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 781 people named Takira (777 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 956 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 4,449 babies since 1880, Takira is the second most given (22% 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 Takira
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 Takira and names like it
- Compare Takira and TakaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTakira peaked in 1998.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takira since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Takira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Takira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.