Akari
#1,880 for girls in 2025, 104 births · #542 for boys in 2025, 554 births
Given to boys 53.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 554 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,278since 2002
Akari over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,880 | 104 | #542 | 554 |
| 2024 | #1,870 | 107 | #1,631 | 104 |
| 2023 | #1,813 | 111 | #1,608 | 108 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 | #2,094 | 71 |
| 2021 | #2,715 | 63 | #2,499 | 53 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 | #2,323 | 58 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #2,744 | 62 | #2,943 | 40 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | #3,378 | 33 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
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| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akari! It came in at #7,643, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2006, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Akari is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#727 · 1 in 4,084
- Alabama#771 · 1 in 4,378
- Pennsylvania#910 · 1 in 6,503
- New Jersey#915 · 1 in 6,728
- Indiana#960 · 1 in 6,321
Best ever in a state: #157 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #727 | 5 | 1 in 4,084 |
| Alabama | #771 | 5 | 1 in 4,378 |
| Pennsylvania | #910 | 8 | 1 in 6,503 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,728 |
| Indiana | #960 | 5 | 1 in 6,321 |
| Georgia | #985 | 8 | 1 in 6,299 |
| North Carolina | #1,029 | 7 | 1 in 7,246 |
| Florida | #1,256 | 9 | 1 in 10,469 |
| Texas | #1,795 | 9 | 1 in 19,712 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Akari
- 1,089 spots since 2024 (#1,631 → #542)
- 1,781 spots since 2020 (#2,323 → #542)
- 4,348 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #542)
- Biggest jump: 1,089 spots in 2025 (#1,631 → #542)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2025 at #542 (554 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,083 boys born in 2025 were named Akari (0.03%)
- 74.2% of all boys named Akari (948) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 64 | #6,802 (2009) | #8,815 |
| 2010s | 266 | #2,582 (2019) | #4,223 |
| 2020s | 948 | #542 (2025) | #1,783 |
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.
Akari in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,456 of them was named Akari, which outranked 89.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,802Kelsie112
- #1,802Luana112
- #1,802Taya112
- #1,813Akari111
- #1,813Avril111
- #1,813Blayke111
- #1,813Cecily111
- #1,826Amiah110
- #1,826Dayanna110
- #1,826Ela110
Tied with 12 names at #1,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 15,839 of them was named Akari, which outranked 88.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,591Noam109
- #1,591Saif109
- #1,591Terrell109
- #1,608Akari108
- #1,608Azaire108
- #1,608Benji108
- #1,608Chad108
- #1,623Brewer107
- #1,623Emrys107
- #1,623Garrison107
Tied with 14 names at #1,608; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.