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Nakeya

Girl · nuh-KAY-uh · Modern

Nakeya is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Nakeya come from?

Modern: probably Na- + Keya, an invented name

Say it
nuh-KAY-uh

Is Nakeya a girl's or a boy's name?

Nakeya is a girls' name.

How popular is Nakeya in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1976, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.

Half of all the girls named Nakeya in the US since 1880 were born between 1981 and 1995, the years shaded on the chart below.

1974Busiest: 35 in 19762014
Nakeya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20146#14,552
20130–
20120–
20118#12,146
20107#13,442
20097#13,698
20087#13,827
200712#9,535
200611#9,897
200514#7,886
200411#9,259
20039#10,420
200214#7,438
200115#6,951
200012#8,020
199916#6,185
199811#8,011
199718#5,413
199620#4,878
199528#3,775
199424#4,233
199323#4,387
199230#3,575
199127#3,811
199025#3,998
198921#4,352
198829#3,301
198724#3,621
198620#4,026
198531#2,938
198434#2,676
198329#2,909
198234#2,704
198131#2,847
198031#2,866
197934#2,621
197823#3,283
197731#2,666
197635#2,334
197524#2,969
197419#3,426

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