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Nakita vs Nakya

American parents have registered 3,018 Nakitas since 1880, against 620 Nakyas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nakita against Nakya, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nakita Nakya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Nakita for 49 years and Nakya for 13 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Nakita Nakya
Total US births 3,018620
Most in one year 26959
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,900610
Median age today 3821
Peak year 19862002
Best rank 683rd girls2,605th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19541974
Girls / boys 2,990 / 28620 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nakitas alive today are over 38; half the Nakyas are over 21. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nakita and Nakya.