Takyra — girls' name
560 babies named Takyra in U.S. Social Security records since 1983, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
53% of everyone ever named Takyra was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Takyra in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Takyra
The Social Security Administration has registered 560 babies named Takyra between 1983 and 2015, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Takyra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Takyra performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 299 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Takyra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Takyra in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Takyra 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 560 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.
Takyra at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Takyra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1983
- Peak year (2005)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
560 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 43 births in a single year.
Takyra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 299 births that decade — 53% of Takyra's all-time total
Takyra decade highlights
- Peak decade 299 births
- Runner-up 156 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Takyra's strongest decade
299 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 53% of all-time use.
Takyra by state
Where Takyra concentrates geographically — total births since 1983
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 33 | 5.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 11 | 2.0% |
| #3 | Mississippi | | 10 | 1.8% |
| #4 | Florida | | 5 | 0.9% |
33 of 560 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 5.9% of nationwide
- Texas 2.0% of nationwide
- Mississippi 1.8% of nationwide
- Florida 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 5.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1983–2015 (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.