Akila

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births

Peak · girls
1997 · 29 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
730
since 1974

Akila over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Akila has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #3,815, 1997girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#11,1228
2023#10,3129
2022#9,05611
2021#8,02413
2020#6,92316
2019#8,13813
2018#8,14613
2017#4,81128
2016#7,23016
2015#6,03621
2014#10,12910
2013#10,23510
2012#8,20814
2011#9,72311
2010#7,51316
2009#8,05815
2008#8,52914
2007#10,81810
2006#6,59219
2005#8,33013
2004#8,71612
2003#5,79520
2002#8,28012
2001#5,36421
2000#8,02712
1999#7,23913
1998#6,36015
1997#3,81529
1996#4,73921
1995#4,21724
1994#5,71316
1993#4,10025
1992#5,71816
1991#7,43011
1990#8,5019
1989#6,95511
1988#5,89513
1987#9,8256
1986#6,15611
1985#5,07714
1984#6,8109
1983#5,14813
1982#5,20913
1981#5,57112
1980#5,24513
1979#5,09213
1978#4,67914
1977#4,23516
1976#8,1566
1975#4,85412
1974#7,6806
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five girls were named Akila! It came in at #7,680, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where Akila is popular in 1979

No state had 5 or more girls named Akila in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Akila
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 2,760 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #8,362)
  • 1,439 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #8,362)
  • 2,326 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1997 at #3,815 (29 births)
  • Births halved by 1999, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 60,024
  • Highest: 1 in 60,024 girls born in 1997 were named Akila (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 24.5% of all girls named Akila (179) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s67#4,235 (1977)#5,783
1980s115#5,077 (1985)#6,189
1990s179#3,815 (1997)#5,783
2000s148#5,364 (2001)#7,851
2010s152#4,811 (2017)#8,017
2020s69#6,923 (2020)#8,967

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.

Akila in 1979

girls
#5,092
13 births · 1 in 123,482 girls

Top girls' names in 1979

  1. #1Jennifer56,712
  2. #2Melissa34,050
  3. #3Amanda31,924
  4. #4Jessica27,780
  5. #5Amy21,609
  6. #6Sarah21,015
  7. #7Heather20,834
  8. #8Angela20,256
  9. #9Nicole19,510
  10. #10Michelle19,266
  11. #5,092Akila13
More about 1979

girls

1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 123,482 of them was named Akila, which outranked 57.5% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akila
  1. #4,842Waleska14
  2. #4,842Yolande14
  3. #4,842Zelma14
  4. #5,092Akila13
  5. #5,092Aaryn13
  6. #5,092Adreana13
  7. #5,092Akeela13
  8. #5,427Abagail12
  9. #5,427Abigayle12
  10. #5,427Adora12

Tied with 334 names at #5,092; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,593Breanne#2,125 → #532
  2. ↑ 1,527Loni#2,516 → #989
  3. ↑ 1,287Renata#2,012 → #725
  4. ↑ 985Ashanti#1,862 → #877
  5. ↑ 896Nicolette#1,581 → #685
Fallers
  1. ↓ 392Christel#762 → #1,154
  2. ↓ 312Kenisha#557 → #869
  3. ↓ 297Ariane#887 → #1,184
  4. ↓ 285Imelda#947 → #1,232
  5. ↓ 252Farrah#539 → #791

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979 →