Akeelah
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 403 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,533since 1989
Akeelah over time
Rank among girls' names. Akeelah has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2018 | #3,789 | 39 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 |
| 2011 | #2,945 | 58 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | #1,756 | 124 |
| 2008 | #1,468 | 160 |
| 2007 | #1,054 | 249 |
| 2006 | #708 | 403 |
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| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
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| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
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| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akeelah! It came in at #9,681, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1995, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Akeelah is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#122 · 1 in 521
- Louisiana#197 · 1 in 870
- Georgia#222 · 1 in 1,035
- Alabama#244 · 1 in 1,073
- Illinois#397 · 1 in 2,004
Best ever in a state: #122 in Mississippi, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #122 | 24 | 1 in 521 |
| Louisiana | #197 | 23 | 1 in 870 |
| Georgia | #222 | 52 | 1 in 1,035 |
| Alabama | #244 | 19 | 1 in 1,073 |
| Illinois | #397 | 34 | 1 in 2,004 |
| Arkansas | #415 | 7 | 1 in 1,784 |
| South Carolina | #427 | 10 | 1 in 1,895 |
| Florida | #443 | 37 | 1 in 2,409 |
| North Carolina | #447 | 21 | 1 in 2,243 |
| Tennessee | #458 | 14 | 1 in 2,270 |
| Maryland | #563 | 9 | 1 in 2,794 |
| Wisconsin | #564 | 8 | 1 in 3,147 |
| Oklahoma | #626 | 6 | 1 in 2,917 |
| Indiana | #720 | 8 | 1 in 4,136 |
| Virginia | #723 | 9 | 1 in 4,207 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 9 | 1 in 4,523 |
| New York | #786 | 20 | 1 in 4,826 |
| Massachusetts | #817 | 5 | 1 in 5,685 |
| Ohio | #825 | 10 | 1 in 5,730 |
| Minnesota | #831 | 5 | 1 in 5,373 |
| Texas | #952 | 28 | 1 in 5,935 |
| Michigan | #1,121 | 6 | 1 in 7,866 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,313 | 5 | 1 in 11,067 |
| California | #2,433 | 9 | 1 in 26,086 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Akeelah
- 1,334 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #7,133)
- 1,646 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #7,133)
- 3,144 spots since 2015 (#3,989 → #7,133)
- Biggest drop: 346 spots in 2007 (#708 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2006 at #708 (403 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2006
- Highest: 1 in 4,718 girls born in 2006 were named Akeelah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.4% of all girls named Akeelah (942) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #9,681 (1989) | #9,681 |
| 1990s | 19 | #9,802 (1997) | #11,665 |
| 2000s | 942 | #708 (2006) | #3,716 |
| 2010s | 436 | #2,093 (2010) | #3,805 |
| 2020s | 129 | #4,833 (2021) | #5,754 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Akeelah in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 4,718 of them was named Akeelah, which outranked 96.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #703Aliya404
- #703Ansley404
- #703Monserrat404
- #708Akeelah403
- #708Gina403
- #710Roselyn402
- #711Giana401
- #711Micah401
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.