Takya

Girls' name

Diminutive of Eustaquia

Takya has been given to 201 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 2002, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Takya, 2011

1 in 523,000

Takya over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takya: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Eustaquia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Takya means

Takya is a diminutive of Eustaquia.

Origin, language, and formation

Takya is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eustaquia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 201 girls were recorded with the name Takya between 1988 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2002; its best national rank was #4,888 in 2002.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Takya?

Takya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 523,000; 7 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only: 1 in 251,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 362,214 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Takya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Takya was born before 2005 — so the typical Takya is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 81.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 201; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 81.6% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Takya 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 2002 (25)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,888; 2002

Spellings of Takya

Takya is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 17.1% against Takya's 0.02%.

Tara17.1%175,812
Maya12.0%123,587
Tonya11.7%120,421
Tanya11.3%116,855
Tasha3.4%35,528
Talia3.3%34,154
Arya2.9%29,536
Tania2.8%28,891

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 Takya is used

Across 1910–2025, Takya was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 665,277 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1North Carolina1 in —

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. Takya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Takya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,888; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 25 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 201
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Takya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Takila Skya Takela Takako Takeia Takera Takiya Takita Takyla Takoda Takshvi Zakya Mikya Takiah Takhia Takoya Takyah Lakya Takai Nikya Takari Takara Takima Takeyah

Sibling names for Takya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyana Alize Lisbeth Vanesa Shakira Shreya Anastacia Delanie

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Alexandre Jaylon Jaylin

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