Akash
#4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 117 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,376since 1975
Akash over time
Rank among boys' names. Akash 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 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #3,347 | 35 |
| 2022 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #2,925 | 40 |
| 2019 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2014 | #3,038 | 37 |
| 2013 | #2,424 | 51 |
| 2012 | #2,594 | 47 |
| 2011 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #2,118 | 63 |
| 2009 | #2,050 | 67 |
| 2008 | #2,001 | 70 |
| 2007 | #1,951 | 72 |
| 2006 | #1,738 | 80 |
| 2005 | #1,674 | 80 |
| 2004 | #1,292 | 115 |
| 2003 | #1,253 | 115 |
| 2002 | #1,191 | 117 |
| 2001 | #1,429 | 87 |
| 2000 | #1,641 | 71 |
| 1999 | #1,408 | 83 |
| 1998 | #1,475 | 75 |
| 1997 | #1,423 | 76 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 61 |
| 1995 | #1,338 | 77 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #1,554 | 58 |
| 1992 | #1,395 | 66 |
| 1991 | #1,359 | 69 |
| 1990 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akash! It came in at #4,309, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1979, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Akash is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#774 · 1 in 6,512
- Virginia#840 · 1 in 7,162
- California#1,112 · 1 in 14,121
- New York#1,588 · 1 in 18,186
- Florida#1,594 · 1 in 20,101
Best ever in a state: #412 in New Jersey, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #774 | 7 | 1 in 6,512 |
| Virginia | #840 | 6 | 1 in 7,162 |
| California | #1,112 | 18 | 1 in 14,121 |
| New York | #1,588 | 6 | 1 in 18,186 |
| Florida | #1,594 | 5 | 1 in 20,101 |
| Texas | #2,007 | 6 | 1 in 31,533 |
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See more about Akash
- 703 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #4,396)
- 1,471 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #4,396)
- 1,712 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2002 at #1,191 (117 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,594 boys born in 2002 were named Akash (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.8% of all boys named Akash (874) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 44 | #2,910 (1977) | #4,072 |
| 1980s | 157 | #2,468 (1987) | #3,263 |
| 1990s | 660 | #1,338 (1995) | #1,513 |
| 2000s | 874 | #1,191 (2002) | #1,622 |
| 2010s | 455 | #2,118 (2010) | #2,719 |
| 2020s | 186 | #2,925 (2020) | #3,651 |
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.
Akash in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 29,145 of them was named Akash, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,981Rodrick71
- #1,981Shiv71
- #1,981Yasin71
- #2,001Akash70
- #2,001Arden70
- #2,001Aryeh70
- #2,001Ashtin70
- #2,028Breyden69
- #2,028Carver69
- #2,028Corben69
Tied with 26 names at #2,001; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.