Given name & surname
Nokia
“soot”
Nokia is a surname, probably from Proto-Finnic. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nokia probably goes back to a word meaning “soot.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nokia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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