girls:
1.2k births since 1993
#4505 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1993
#6526 (16th percentile)
The name Nakiyah is the #6,526 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,214 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 15.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,505 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 1,214 births since 1993.
Nakiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for girls in 1993).
For girls, Nakiyah reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #863) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nakiyah ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 30.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nakiyah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nakiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Nakiyah is pronounced as nuh-KEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nah-KAI-yuh, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AH0 K IY1 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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