Given name & surname
Taka
“tall and honorable woman”
Taka is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “tall and honorable woman.”
Original Japanese貴
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “tall and honorable woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Taka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 46
- 0 boys · 46 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 15 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 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 242 as a first name in 2020; 155 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Taka’s family of names
Taka has a related form in Tacka. Taka has a related form in Takah. Taka has a related form in Takka.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Taka
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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