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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, "who was often in conflict with his people's customs and white man's law". It has also been used as an African-American feminine name.