Meaning not yet researched.
Nakia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #226 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #226 in 1974; #11,617 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nakia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,617 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #226.
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Nakia: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #226 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 1,135 (1974).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Nakia, making it the 11,617th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,766 places from #7,851 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 14 girls named Nakia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #226, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,135. For comparison, it was #7,504 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Nakia in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #302, reached in 1974. That year also had the most boys given the name: 613. For comparison, it was #9,304 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nakia in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 7 babies. In all, 10,744 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4,934 babies named Nakia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 180 US girls were named Nakia; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kia (7,809 babies since 1880), Nakiya (1,802 babies since 1880) and Nakiyah (1,243 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nakeya, Nakiah and Nakya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nakeya (805), Nakiah (624), Nakya (620), Nakeia (393), Naoki (337), Nakyah (291), Nakyia (234), Nakea (228), Nakkia (119), Nakeyia (76), Nakiea (66), Naki (65), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nakia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,617 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,851 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,218 | 8 | #9,480 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,836 | 6 | #11,718 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,550 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,856 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,692 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,127 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,504 | 8 | #9,304 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,262 | 9 | #8,566 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,073 | 7 | #10,426 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,769 | 8 | #9,348 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,276 | 5 | #13,653 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,394 | 6 | #12,012 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,411 | 11 | #7,557 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,912 | 14 | #6,167 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,340 | 15 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,154 | 15 | #5,487 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,779 | 21 | #4,216 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,966 | 24 | #3,696 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,570 | 19 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,394 | 24 | #3,585 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,452 | 29 | #3,050 |
| 1999 | 166 | #1,172 | 34 | #2,596 |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,084 | 32 | #2,632 |
| 1997 | 181 | #1,056 | 29 | #2,728 |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,111 | 34 | #2,364 |
| 1995 | 159 | #1,118 | 40 | #2,084 |
| 1994 | 186 | #1,002 | 36 | #2,245 |
| 1993 | 201 | #941 | 20 | #3,329 |
| 1992 | 209 | #932 | 22 | #3,078 |
| 1991 | 154 | #1,153 | 20 | #3,192 |
| 1990 | 143 | #1,196 | 11 | #4,895 |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,155 | 12 | #4,441 |
| 1988 | 125 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1987 | 188 | #895 | 7 | #5,897 |
| 1986 | 191 | #872 | 8 | #5,181 |
| 1985 | 279 | #655 | 11 | #3,962 |
| 1984 | 269 | #649 | 15 | #3,052 |
| 1983 | 218 | #749 | 16 | #2,874 |
| 1982 | 232 | #734 | 15 | #3,061 |
| 1981 | 254 | #687 | 13 | #3,354 |
| 1980 | 259 | #675 | 19 | #2,590 |
| 1979 | 270 | #645 | 31 | #1,819 |
| 1978 | 313 | #560 | 46 | #1,367 |
| 1977 | 364 | #512 | 69 | #1,045 |
| 1976 | 490 | #414 | 110 | #793 |
| 1975 | 972 | #251 | 514 | #337 |
| 1974 | 1,135 | #226 | 613 | #302 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,177 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).