Akilah
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 93 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,012since 1972
Akilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Akilah 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 | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 |
| 2006 | #2,353 | 80 |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 |
| 2004 | #3,180 | 48 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 |
| 2001 | #2,740 | 54 |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,283 | 65 |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 |
| 1997 | #1,624 | 97 |
| 1996 | #1,438 | 114 |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 |
| 1994 | #1,798 | 80 |
| 1993 | #1,409 | 115 |
| 1992 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 1991 | #1,628 | 92 |
| 1990 | #2,053 | 65 |
| 1989 | #1,998 | 63 |
| 1988 | #1,952 | 62 |
| 1987 | #1,880 | 61 |
| 1986 | #1,910 | 58 |
| 1985 | #2,203 | 47 |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 |
| 1983 | #1,512 | 75 |
| 1982 | #1,445 | 83 |
| 1981 | #1,528 | 78 |
| 1980 | #1,328 | 95 |
| 1979 | #1,314 | 95 |
| 1978 | #1,299 | 93 |
| 1977 | #1,331 | 86 |
| 1976 | #1,422 | 74 |
| 1975 | #1,625 | 60 |
| 1974 | #1,616 | 58 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akilah! It came in at #4,523, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2023–2025, when fewer than 15 girls a year got the name.
Where Akilah is popular in 1975
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#920 · 1 in 11,143
- Illinois#1,039 · 1 in 11,613
- California#1,175 · 1 in 12,586
Best ever in a state: #233 in District of Columbia, 1979.
Show every state
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| Michigan | #920 | 5 | 1 in 11,143 |
| Illinois | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 11,613 |
| California | #1,175 | 11 | 1 in 12,586 |
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See more about Akilah
- 1,490 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #9,457)
- 4,909 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #9,457)
- 3,221 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1978 at #1,299 (93 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,377 girls born in 1996 were named Akilah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,299 in 1978, was only 1 in 16,472 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.0% of all girls named Akilah (874) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 507 | #1,299 (1978) | #1,955 |
| 1980s | 668 | #1,328 (1980) | #1,791 |
| 1990s | 874 | #1,409 (1993) | #1,780 |
| 2000s | 545 | #2,352 (2002) | #3,046 |
| 2010s | 296 | #3,849 (2016) | #4,872 |
| 2020s | 122 | #4,548 (2020) | #6,521 |
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.
Akilah in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 24,298 of them was named Akilah, which outranked 84.7% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,604Shenita61
- #1,604Shoshana61
- #1,604Tameeka61
- #1,625Akilah60
- #1,625Abbey60
- #1,625Andrew60
- #1,625Ariel60
- #1,640Amiee59
- #1,640Asha59
- #1,640Carmel59
Tied with 14 names at #1,625; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.