Nakiya
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · Last seen for boys in 1975 at #5,464
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 147 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,797since 1974
Nakiya over time
Rank among girls' names. Nakiya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,000 | 57 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,418 | 78 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,988 | 100 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,160 | 85 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,895 | 99 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,282 | 74 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,695 | 108 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,304 | 147 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,869 | 91 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,205 | 68 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,731 | 49 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,036 | 39 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,522 | 20 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nakiya! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nakiya is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#325 · 1 in 1,414
- Virginia#635 · 1 in 3,962
- Maryland#665 · 1 in 3,959
- Tennessee#748 · 1 in 5,004
- Illinois#832 · 1 in 5,723
Best ever in a state: #232 in District of Columbia, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #325 | 8 | 1 in 1,414 |
| Virginia | #635 | 9 | 1 in 3,962 |
| Maryland | #665 | 6 | 1 in 3,959 |
| Tennessee | #748 | 6 | 1 in 5,004 |
| Illinois | #832 | 12 | 1 in 5,723 |
| Florida | #856 | 13 | 1 in 5,925 |
| North Carolina | #1,005 | 6 | 1 in 7,240 |
| Georgia | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 9,681 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nakiya
- 1,518 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #7,133)
- 836 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #7,133)
- 1,845 spots since 2015 (#5,288 → #7,133)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2001 at #1,304 (147 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,249 girls born in 2001 were named Nakiya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.7% of all girls named Nakiya (911) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 74 | #3,777 (1978) | #5,617 |
| 1980s | 129 | #4,167 (1982) | #6,121 |
| 1990s | 323 | #2,205 (1999) | #3,926 |
| 2000s | 911 | #1,304 (2001) | #2,120 |
| 2010s | 264 | #3,123 (2010) | #5,861 |
| 2020s | 96 | #4,873 (2023) | #7,594 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nakiya in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 16,638 of them was named Nakiya, which outranked 90.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,683Paisley109
- #1,683Suzanna109
- #1,683Zakiya109
- #1,695Nakiya108
- #1,695Abriana108
- #1,695Alexsandra108
- #1,695Ambria108
- #1,708Azariah107
- #1,708Beth107
- #1,708Cami107
Tied with 12 names at #1,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.