Takyra
Takyra was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 560 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takyra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,217, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 2005, the peak
Takyra peaked in 2005, when 43 girls were given it, #3,496 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,217 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,439 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,329 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,170 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,314 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,361 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,068 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,935 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,929 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,786 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 43 | #3,496 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,266 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,773 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,873 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,991 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,634 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,015 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,619 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,201 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,501 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,462 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,039 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,916 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,687 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,150 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,775 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,193 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,622 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,609 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,277 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,244 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,230 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takyra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takyra, and how old are they?
An estimated 552 Americans named Takyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 19 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 438 people named Takyra (432 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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, Takyra is the third most given (13% 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 Takyra
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 Takyra and names like it
- Compare Takyra and TakaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTakyra peaked in 2005.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takyra since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Takyra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Takyra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.