# Nakia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nakia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,744 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,006 / 8,738 (81% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 41 | 3,769 |
| 2012 | 28 | 5,073 |
| 2013 | 26 | 5,262 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6,635 |
| 2015 | 16 | 7,504 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,127 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,692 |
| 2018 | 28 | 4,856 |
| 2019 | 29 | 4,745 |
| 2020 | 18 | 6,550 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,836 |
| 2022 | 18 | 6,635 |
| 2023 | 25 | 5,218 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7,851 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,617 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 19 | 4,284 |
| 2003 | 24 | 3,696 |
| 2004 | 21 | 4,216 |
| 2005 | 15 | 5,487 |
| 2006 | 15 | 5,708 |
| 2007 | 14 | 6,167 |
| 2008 | 11 | 7,557 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,012 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,653 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,348 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,426 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,566 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,304 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,718 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,480 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2,466 |

## People named Nakia

- Nakia Burrise, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.