Meaning not yet researched.
Nakiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,310 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,310 in 2001; #7,395 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nakiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,395 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,310.
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Nakiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,310 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 147 (2001).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Nakiya, making it the 7,395th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,656 places from #5,739 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 22 girls named Nakiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,310, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 147. For comparison, it was #5,415 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nakiya in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 1,802 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 911 babies named Nakiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 152 US girls were named Nakiya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nakia (10,744 babies since 1880) and Nakiyah (1,243 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nakeyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nakeyah (22).
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 Nakiya 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 | 15 | #7,395 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,958 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,181 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,871 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,282 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,956 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,003 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,011 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,876 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,636 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,417 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,486 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,326 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,616 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,006 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,472 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,447 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,793 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,130 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,704 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,787 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,770 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,181 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,846 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,401 | 5 | #6,030 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,722 | — | — |
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).