girls:
15 births since 2001
#5701 (0th percentile)
overall:
15 births since 2001
#7724 (0th percentile)
The name Nakiaya is the #7,724 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 2001.
Nakiaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for girls in 2001). Birth data for Nakiaya is available in 2 out of the 4 years between 2001 and 2004. 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, Nakiaya reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #893) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nakiaya".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Nakiaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.5% confident that Nakiaya is pronounced as nuh-KAI-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nah-KAI-yuh, at 11.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AH0 K AY1 Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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