In 2025, 36 US girls were named Jakiyah, making it the 4,020th most common girls’ name of the year, up 402 places from #4,422 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 32 girls named Jakiyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,166, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #3,107 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakiyah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 1,501 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 660 babies named Jakiyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 370 US girls were named Jakiyah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jakiya (1,432 babies since 1880) and Jakia (1,198 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jakiah, Jakyah and Jakeya are summarised on this page.