Akili
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 64.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 15 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 461since 1972
Akili over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,140 | 9 | |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akili! It came in at #2,418, and was given to 15 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1988, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Akili is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,405 · 1 in 35,946
Best ever in a state: #973 in New York, 1975.
Show every state
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| California | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 35,946 |
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See more about Akili
- 180 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #9,714)
- 1,647 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #9,714)
- 970 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1975 at #2,361 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 73,852 boys born in 1999 were named Akili (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,361 in 1975, was only 1 in 86,742 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.9% of all boys named Akili (115) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2021, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 90 | #2,361 (1975) | #3,446 |
| 1980s | 43 | #4,509 (1981) | #5,171 |
| 1990s | 115 | #3,103 (1999) | #4,955 |
| 2000s | 113 | #3,640 (2000) | #7,270 |
| 2010s | 64 | #7,136 (2018) | #9,138 |
| 2020s | 36 | #8,067 (2020) | #9,781 |
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.
Akili in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 143,461 of them was named Akili, which outranked 52.5% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,168Zain13
- #3,168Zaki13
- #3,168Zenon13
- #3,357Akili12
- #3,357Adil12
- #3,357Albin12
- #3,357Alston12
- #3,569Abdel11
- #3,569Able11
- #3,569Adren11
Tied with 211 names at #3,357; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.