Nakiya
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.
Nakiya by the numbers
Nakiya was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 147 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Nakiya
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.
Names that come from Nakiya
Forms of Nakiya in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Nakiya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Nakiya
Names that are said the same way as Nakiya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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