Akil
#5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 49 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,147since 1970
Akil over time
Rank among boys' names. Akil 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 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #2,897 | 42 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #2,715 | 45 |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #2,449 | 50 |
| 2005 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #2,238 | 51 |
| 2003 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #1,642 | 65 |
| 1998 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #1,908 | 48 |
| 1996 | #1,638 | 59 |
| 1995 | #1,312 | 80 |
| 1994 | #1,288 | 82 |
| 1993 | #1,340 | 72 |
| 1992 | #1,429 | 64 |
| 1991 | #1,557 | 55 |
| 1990 | #1,564 | 53 |
| 1989 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #1,815 | 37 |
| 1987 | #2,215 | 26 |
| 1986 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #1,464 | 43 |
| 1981 | #1,373 | 47 |
| 1980 | #1,496 | 41 |
| 1979 | #1,370 | 46 |
| 1978 | #1,452 | 41 |
| 1977 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | #1,429 | 38 |
| 1974 | #1,520 | 33 |
| 1973 | #1,612 | 29 |
| 1972 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akil! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Akil is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#547 · 1 in 4,111
- Georgia#849 · 1 in 7,464
- New York#1,364 · 1 in 15,468
- California#2,156 · 1 in 42,361
Best ever in a state: #506 in New Jersey, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #547 | 7 | 1 in 4,111 |
| Georgia | #849 | 8 | 1 in 7,464 |
| New York | #1,364 | 7 | 1 in 15,468 |
| California | #2,156 | 6 | 1 in 42,361 |
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See more about Akil
- 2,183 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #5,399)
- 1,746 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #5,399)
- 1,968 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1977 at #1,268 (49 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,561 boys born in 1994 were named Akil (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,268 in 1977, was only 1 in 33,535 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.7% of all boys named Akil (617) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 305 | #1,268 (1977) | #1,968 |
| 1980s | 316 | #1,373 (1981) | #1,993 |
| 1990s | 617 | #1,288 (1994) | #1,595 |
| 2000s | 427 | #2,015 (2000) | #2,661 |
| 2010s | 322 | #2,715 (2017) | #3,449 |
| 2020s | 160 | #3,216 (2024) | #4,142 |
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.
Akil in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 33,853 of them was named Akil, which outranked 84.4% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,061Tyriq60
- #2,061Ulices60
- #2,061Willard60
- #2,081Akil59
- #2,081Ahmir59
- #2,081Aldair59
- #2,081Amado59
- #2,114Abdullahi58
- #2,114Blaize58
- #2,114Carnell58
Tied with 32 names at #2,081; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.