Nakisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nakisha has been given to 2,459 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 203 recorded.
Babies named Nakisha, 2012
1 in 732,000
Nakisha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nakisha?
Nakisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nakisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nakisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nakishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nakisha was born before 1980 — so the typical Nakisha is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 43.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,459
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (1,074).
Is Nakisha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (203)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.1% average annual change
Spellings of Nakisha
Nakisha is not the most common spelling — Natasha is, with 28.2% against Nakisha's 0.71%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nakisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Nakisha was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 92,123 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 25,000
- 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 3Florida1 in 50,000
- 4Maryland1 in 50,000
- 5Michigan1 in 50,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 7Alabama1 in 100,000
- 8Arkansas1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nakisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nakisha around the world
Where Nakisha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2008#5,545in 2008
- Canada1995–1995#2,576in 1995
- South Australia1992–2003#475in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nakisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nakisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Nakisha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nakisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Nakisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.