In 2025, 20 US girls were named Jakiya, making it the 6,001st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,383 places from #7,384 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 15 girls named Jakiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,796, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #4,026 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakiya in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,432 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 827 babies named Jakiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US girls were named Jakiya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jakiyah (1,501 babies since 1880) and Jakia (1,198 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jakyia, Jakeia and Jakea are summarised on this page.