Takiya
Takiya was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,745 among girls’ names; 1,028 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Takiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takiya?
#14,745 among girls’ names, 2025
Takiya fell from #8,887 in 2015 to #14,745 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.7 per million.
62 babies in 2002, the peak
Takiya peaked in 2002, when 62 girls were given it, #2,548 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,745 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,364 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,818 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,887 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,865 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,708 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,759 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,310 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,954 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,918 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 34 | #4,535 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,841 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,154 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,856 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,559 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,175 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,548 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,872 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,276 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,434 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,288 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,110 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,860 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,593 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,955 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,643 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,025 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,213 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,159 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,958 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,582 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,164 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,437 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,150 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,787 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,753 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,516 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,597 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,609 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,376 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,626 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,852 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,246 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,615 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takiya, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,028 Americans ever recorded as Takiya. The median Takiya alive today is 25 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 803 people named Takiya (799 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,007 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 232 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 586 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 64 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 6,377 babies since 1880, Takiya is the third most given (16% 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 Takiya
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 Takiya and names like it
- Compare Takiya and TakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTakiya peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Takiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Takiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.