girls:
811 births since 1974
#4905 (14th percentile)
boys:
50 births since 1974
#4536 (1st percentile)
overall:
861 births since 1974
#6878 (11th percentile)
The name Nekia is the #6,878 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 861 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 11.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,905 (14.2% percentile) for all time with 811 births since 1974. For boys, it ranks #4,536 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1974.
Nekia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 . Birth data for Nekia is available in 33 out of the 36 years between 1974 and 2009 (33 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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.
The name Nekia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nekia reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #704) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 35 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
For boys, Nekia reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #649) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nekia".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nekia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.9% confident that Nekia is pronounced as nuh-KEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEH-kee-uh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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