Jakia

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jakia by the numbers

Jakia was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 66 babies in 2000, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jakia

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jakia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • JaniaGod is gracious; a form of Jane or Jeanie34 in the US (2017)
  • Jamia73 in the US (2017)
  • Jalia41 in the US (2017)
  • Jaia29 in the US (2017)
  • Jakiah21 in the US (2017)
  • Jakiya20 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jakia

Names that are said the same way as Jakia, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Jakia

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