Jakiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- juh-KY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Jakiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
Where does Jakiya come from?
Modern: spelling of Jakiyah; modern coinage, perhaps based on Zakiyah or Ja- plus Kiyah
Meaning borrowed from Jakiyah.
Is Jakiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Jakiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jakiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,916th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Jakiya, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 100 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
2025 had more girls named Jakiya than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Jakiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 56 girls in the US were given Jakiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,426, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.
- Jakiyah 36
- Jakiya 20
Jakiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 37 | #3,988 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,212 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,266 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,937 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,729 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,354 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,293 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,031 |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,056 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,192 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,060 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,789 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,704 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,779 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,235 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,122 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,615 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
Names like Jakiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jaliyah, Aaliyah, Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Aliya, Zaniya, Safiya, Janiyah, Zariya, Amira, Hadassah, Kamiyah
Other spellings of Jakiya
Names related to Jakiya
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jakiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jakiya, updated 20 October 2026.