girls:
2.5k births since 1971
#3494 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1971
#5373 (31st percentile)
The name Nakisha is the #5,373 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,459 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 30.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,494 (38.9% percentile) for all time with 2,459 births since 1971.
Nakisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Nakisha is available in 39 out of the 42 years between 1971 and 2012. 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, Nakisha reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 26.0% percentile (ranked #560) with 123 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 123 births per million (ranked 26.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nakisha".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nakisha is pronounced as nuh-KEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables.
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