girls:
284 births since 1998
#5432 (5th percentile)
overall:
284 births since 1998
#7455 (4th percentile)
The name Jakyah is the #7,455 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 284 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,432 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 284 births since 1998.
Jakyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998). Birth data for Jakyah is available in 23 out of the 23 years between 1998 and 2020. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Jakyah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #942) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jakyah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jakyah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 19 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jakiyah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jakiyah..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Jakyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Jakyah is pronounced as JA-kyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-KAI-uh, at 17.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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