Takiyah

Gender: Girl
Say it: tuh-KEE-yuh
Origin: Arabic
US rank, 2025: #10,104 for girls

Takiyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pious, devout”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Takiyah mean?

Arabic: variant of Taqiyya, feminine of Taqi

“pious, devout”

An American spelling of the Arabic Taqiyya, the feminine form of Taqi, 'God-fearing'.

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

Takiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Takiyah in the US?

Rank in 2025: 10,104th among girls
Babies in 2025: 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend: Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Takiyah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2005, with 88 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.

Half of all the girls named Takiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1971Busiest: 88 in 20052025

Takiyah in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	9	#10,104
2024	6	#13,472
2023	7	#12,192
2022	10	#9,674
2021	11	#8,973
2020	12	#8,401
2019	12	#8,592
2018	14	#7,758
2017	21	#5,817
2016	17	#6,898
2015	8	#11,830
2014	29	#4,766
2013	40	#3,776
2012	42	#3,710
2011	54	#3,091
2010	55	#3,043
2009	70	#2,613
2008	73	#2,557
2007	85	#2,276
2006	75	#2,459
2005	88	#2,105
2004	68	#2,478
2003	60	#2,635
2002	48	#3,010
2001	42	#3,252
2000	38	#3,448
1999	35	#3,506
1998	29	#3,911
1997	32	#3,544
1996	18	#5,275
1995	16	#5,672
1994	32	#3,443
1993	18	#5,200
1992	25	#4,082
1991	36	#3,091
1990	16	#5,544
1989	21	#4,352
1988	18	#4,648
1987	20	#4,119
1986	38	#2,563
1985	36	#2,656
1984	52	#1,960
1983	48	#2,068
1982	32	#2,830
1981	46	#2,195
1980	56	#1,904
1979	50	#2,020
1978	53	#1,862
1977	60	#1,717
1976	71	#1,464
1975	53	#1,756
1974	36	#2,213
1973	21	#3,121
1972	6	#7,290
1971	5	#8,322