Nakia
Nakia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 226th, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19741,135 births
- Best rank
- #226in 1974
- Since 1973
- 10,736people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,730 girls have been named Nakia in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 1,135 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 1,135 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1970s alone account for 41%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Nakia is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are boys (2,006), most of them born around 1974.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1974, its biggest year
Nakia was the 226th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Nakia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chastitypeak 1974
- Carisapeak 1977
- Kanikapeak 1978
- Sachapeak 1977
- Kenyattapeak 1975
- Errinpeak 1977
- Jamillahpeak 1975
- Danyellpeak 1974
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.