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Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Popular Culture, African American
Other Forms FormsNakea, Nakeya, Nakeyah, Nakiah, Nakiya, Nikia
Meaning & History
Briefly charted on American popularity lists due to the short-lived television police drama series 'Nakia' (1974), which starred Robert Forster as a Navajo deputy sheriff. Since then, it has been used as an African-American name (both femenine and masculine), interpreted as a combination of the phonetic elements na, kee and ya