Nakiya
#7,393 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nakiya has been given to 1,802 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #7,393 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 147 recorded.
Babies named Nakiya, 2025
1 in 221,000
Nakiya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nakiya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,393
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nakiya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nakiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nakiyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nakiya was born before 2003 — so the typical Nakiya is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,797
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (911).
Is Nakiya 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
- −1,657
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +884
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,980
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.60×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.2%
- Peak was 2001 (147)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.3% average annual change
Spellings of Nakiya
Nakiya is not the most common spelling — Nadia is, with 14.3% against Nakiya's 0.55%.
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 Nakiya is used
Across 1910–2025, Nakiya was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 215,166 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6Illinois1 in 100,000
- 7Maryland1 in 100,000
- 8Michigan1 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. Nakiya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nakiya around the world
Where Nakiya 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.
- France2018–2025#3,253in 2025
- Canada2023–2023#3,197in 2023
- South Australia2006–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nakiya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nakiya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nakiya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.