Takira
Feminine
Takira puts an American front element on a borrowed Arabic sound. The base has been in American naming since the 1970s, detached from the language it came from and available to anybody; the front attaches to hundreds of names and means nothing at all.
How old is the name Takira?
Takira first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Takira alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 1,000 people named Takira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Takira most popular?
Takira peaked in 1998, reaching #2338 nationally. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From an Arabic sound enters American naming in the 1970s to Takira
Our story of Takira
Borrowed sounds behave differently from borrowed words. A word arrives with a meaning attached and keeps at least some of it; a sound arrives with nothing and becomes raw material immediately. English has done this before, on a large scale — the -ella of Cinderella and Isabella, the -etta of Henrietta, the -ine of Caroline all came in as parts of particular names and became endings available to anybody. What is unusual about the last sixty years is only the speed, and the fact that a national register was watching.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The sound at the back resembles an Arabic adjective, and the resemblance is at two removes: American naming took the sound rather than the word, and then built on it. Neither half of this name has a meaning that can be looked up. What it has is a shape that everybody can read, which is what the system was optimising for.
How the name formed
- an Arabic sound enters American naming in the 1970s
- the sound detaches from its language and becomes a base
- front elements attach to it
- Takira appears in the record in the late 1970s
- peaks at the end of the 1990s
Related forms: Takyra · Kira
Pronouncing Takira
tuh-KEER-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The spelling matches the sound throughout.
Nicknames for Takira
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
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 199860 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2338reached in 1998
- Change vs 2020
- 0.0%6 in 2021, from 6
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.
Takira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Takyra in English — spelling variant
- Kira in English — related form
Takiras among us
people named Takira 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
Takira 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
- Kira is available inside it and is a complete name in Russian, Japanese and English.
- It is read correctly at sight by anybody.
- The rhythm is the three-beat one English handles most comfortably.
- Takyra and Takeira are both in the record and will be substituted.
- There is no meaning to give her and no origin outside the pattern.
- It is closely dated to the last decades of the century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Takiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Takira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Takira in 2025?
- Takira is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Takira with classmates?
- Takira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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