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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nakia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nakia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nakia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nakia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nakia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nakia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nakia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nakia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1974 1748 0.000575 1135 613 30%
1975 1486 0.000492152 972 514 31%
1976 600 0.000197739 490 110 63%
1977 433 0.000136314 364 69 68%
1978 359 0.000113111 313 46 74%
1979 301 0.000090472 270 31 79%
1980 278 0.000080708 259 19 86%
1981 267 0.000077182 254 13 90%
1982 247 0.000070411 232 15 88%
1983 234 0.000067565 218 16 86%
1984 284 0.000081404 269 15 89%
1985 290 0.000081253 279 11 92%
1986 199 0.000055945 191 8 92%
1987 195 0.000054082 188 7 93%
1988 125 0.000033829 125 100%
1989 155 0.000040318 143 12 85%
1990 154 0.000038963 143 11 86%
1991 174 0.00004467 154 20 77%
1992 231 0.000060136 209 22 81%
1993 221 0.000058616 201 20 82%
1994 222 0.000059715 186 36 68%
1995 199 0.00005434 159 40 60%
1996 198 0.000054288 164 34 66%
1997 210 0.000057919 181 29 72%
1998 211 0.000057365 179 32 70%
1999 200 0.000054144 166 34 66%
2000 156 0.000041271 127 29 63%
2001 161 0.000043009 137 24 70%
2002 138 0.000036915 119 19 72%
2003 117 0.000030771 93 24 59%
2004 129 0.000033761 108 21 67%
2005 101 0.000026269 86 15 70%
2006 96 0.000024266 81 15 69%
2007 76 0.000019011 62 14 63%
2008 91 0.000023151 80 11 76%
2009 55 0.000014397 49 6 78%
2010 40 0.000010823 35 5 75%
2011 49 0.000013396 41 8 67%
2012 35 0.00000957 28 7 60%
2013 35 0.0000096 26 9 49%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 100%
2015 24 0.000006485 16 8 33%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 100%
2019 29 0.000008355 29 100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 100%
2021 18 0.000005313 12 6 33%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 100%
2023 33 0.000009966 25 8 52%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Nakia:

  1. Nakhia
  2. Nakhiya
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  4. Nakhyla
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  8. Nakiaya
  9. Nakida
  10. Nakie
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