Meaning not yet researched.
Nakoa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 106 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,524 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,524 in 2023; #1,606 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Nakoa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,606 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,524.
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Nakoa: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 106 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,524 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 116 (2023).
In 2025, 106 US boys were named Nakoa, making it the 1,606th most common boys’ name of the year, down 69 places from #1,537 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 115 boys named Nakoa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,524, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #4,501 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nakoa in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 1,212 US babies have been given the name, 6.2% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 662 babies named Nakoa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 804 US boys were named Nakoa; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 116. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,114 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nakoa ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #201 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Naoko and Nakoah 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naoko (67), Nakoah (59).
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 Nakoa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #201 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #662 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #782 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #999 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,106 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,183 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,014 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,788 | 106 | #1,606 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,795 | 115 | #1,537 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,915 | 116 | #1,524 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,182 | 99 | #1,717 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,100 | 105 | #1,619 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,596 | 70 | #2,038 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,386 | 75 | #1,970 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,418 | 53 | #2,462 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,694 | 37 | #3,173 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,860 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,501 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,219 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,635 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,193 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,596 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,007 | 17 | #5,404 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,543 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,845 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,695 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #6,002 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,490 |
| 2004 | — | — | 17 | #4,940 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,381 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,891 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,300 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,726 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,444 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,178 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,073 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,926 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,545 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,808 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,810 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,706 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,882 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,626 |
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).