Takia
Feminine
A car marque sits inside this name and the name got there first. The manufacturer did not sell a vehicle in America until the nineteen-nineties; the name is in the record from the mid-seventies, which means the collision is entirely the company's doing and the name has been overtaken rather than borrowed.
How old is the name Takia?
Takia first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Takia alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,900 people named Takia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Takia most popular?
Takia peaked in 1985, reaching #1458 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Takia
That Arabic word is worth clearing up because it gets attached to this name on other pages. Taqiyya is a term in Islamic law concerning the permissibility of concealing one's faith under threat, and it is spelled with a consonant Arabic distinguishes clearly from the plain k this name uses — they are different letters making different sounds. Whatever else this name is, it is not that word, and the gloss is produced by matching English letters rather than Arabic ones. The honest position is that the name is an American construction with no meaning at all.
Meaningnot established
Not established
A productive American prefix joined to a two-letter tail that is not a word. There is an Arabic term the letters approach and it is a different word with a different consonant; the resemblance does not survive examination.
Pronouncing Takia
tuh-KEE-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The prefix is unstressed and reduces almost to nothing.
Nicknames for Takia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 199786 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1458reached in 1985
- Change vs 2014
- −50.0%5 in 2019, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Takias among us
people named Takia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Takia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short, easy and completely straightforward to say.
- The spelling follows the sound exactly with nothing to explain.
- The rhythm is even and comfortable at speed.
- The obvious short form is now a car brand, which was not true when the name arrived.
- There is no meaning, and pages offering an Arabic one have the wrong word.
- It reads clearly as belonging to a particular American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Takias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Takia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Takia in 2025?
- Takia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Takia with classmates?
- Takia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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