girls:
2k births since 1971
#3856 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1971
#5810 (25th percentile)
The name Takiyah is the #5,810 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,958 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 24.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,856 (32.5% percentile) for all time with 1,958 births since 1971.
Takiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971).
For girls, Takiyah reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #856) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 45 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Takiyah ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 8.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Takiyah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Takiyah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 22 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Takia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Takia..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Takiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.7% confident that Takiyah is pronounced as tuh-KEE-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-KEE-uh, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T AH0 K IY1 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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