Takiyah
Takiyah was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,822 among girls’ names; 1,973 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,930 Americans named Takiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takiyah?
#10,822 among girls’ names, 2025
Takiyah rose from #12,889 in 2015 to #10,822 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.6 per million.
88 babies in 2005, the peak
Takiyah peaked in 2005, when 88 girls were given it, #2,119 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,822 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,064 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,310 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,313 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,477 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,898 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,048 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,114 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,014 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,197 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,889 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,885 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,840 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,773 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,128 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,070 | 30.9 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,640 | 38.1 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,580 | 38.6 |
| 2007 | 85 | #2,287 | 44.2 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,481 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,119 | 47.6 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,498 | 37.0 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,666 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,059 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,307 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,510 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,556 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,007 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,614 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,500 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,915 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,521 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,399 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,212 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,145 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,803 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,499 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,824 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,253 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,612 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,697 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,985 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,094 | 28.7 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,892 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,228 | 27.6 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,933 | 33.7 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,046 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,890 | 34.6 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,732 | 39.1 |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,478 | 48.5 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,774 | 36.4 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,247 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,218 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,138 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,450 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takiyah, and how old are they?
1,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,973 Americans ever recorded as Takiyah. The median Takiyah alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,474 people named Takiyah (1,462 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,886 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 389 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 885 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 195 |
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).
Where are babies named Takiyah born?
The states with the most babies named Takiyah are New York, Florida and Illinois, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 78 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 59 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 43 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 43 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New Jersey | 37 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 28 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Takiyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,205 babies since 1880, Takiyah is the most given (32% 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 Takiyah
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 Takiyah and names like it
- Compare Takiyah and TakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTakiyah peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Takiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Takiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.