Aakash
#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 44 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,049since 1979
Aakash over time
Rank among boys' names. Aakash has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #2,887 | 35 |
| 2003 | #2,312 | 46 |
| 2002 | #2,155 | 49 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #3,182 | 25 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #2,257 | 34 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
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| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aakash! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aakash is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,504 · 1 in 30,415
Best ever in a state: #507 in New Jersey, 1992.
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| California | #1,504 | 8 | 1 in 30,415 |
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See more about Aakash
- 1,774 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #8,243)
- 2,544 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #8,243)
- 2,954 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1992 at #1,844 (44 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,623 boys born in 2002 were named Aakash (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,844 in 1992, was only 1 in 45,396 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all boys named Aakash (348) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 73 | #3,446 (1989) | #4,709 |
| 1990s | 293 | #1,844 (1992) | #2,759 |
| 2000s | 348 | #2,155 (2002) | #3,029 |
| 2010s | 252 | #3,231 (2012) | #4,222 |
| 2020s | 78 | #4,780 (2021) | #7,198 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aakash in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 65,909 of them was named Aakash, which outranked 75.4% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,711Vinay30
- #2,711Yancy30
- #2,711Zak30
- #2,782Aakash29
- #2,782Abbas29
- #2,782Abe29
- #2,782Abhinav29
- #2,851Abiel28
- #2,851Alexsander28
- #2,851Alon28
Tied with 68 names at #2,782; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.