Meaning not yet researched.
Nakiyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,248 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,248 in 2005; #7,778 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nakiyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,778 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #2,248.
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Nakiyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,248 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 81 (2006).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Nakiyah, making it the 7,778th most common girls’ name of the year, down 288 places from #7,490 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 15 girls named Nakiyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,248, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 81, in 2006. For comparison, it was #5,082 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nakiyah in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 8 babies. In all, 1,243 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 652 babies named Nakiyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 195 US girls were named Nakiyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nakia (10,744 babies since 1880) and Nakiya (1,802 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Nakiyah 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 | 14 | #7,778 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,490 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,895 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,636 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,890 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,551 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,610 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,731 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,128 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,082 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,128 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,624 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,631 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,532 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,376 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,254 | — | — |
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).