Akim

#4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births

Peak · boys
1974 · 19 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
813
since 1967

Akim over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Akim has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201967peak #2,199, 1974boys
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#4,70721
2024#5,24118
2023#3,47433
2022#4,30324
2021#3,49732
2020#4,02025
2019#3,71629
2018#3,79328
2017#4,22424
2016#4,77620
2015#6,32413
2014#7,04811
2013#6,60312
2012#6,30613
2011#6,57812
2010#4,09924
2009#5,55416
2008#5,48716
2007#7,59010
2006#7,9989
2005#6,22612
2004#6,97610
2003#5,27114
2002#8,4567
2001#5,39013
2000#3,92220
1999#5,65611
1998#4,65014
1997#4,96012
1996#5,9829
1995#4,50813
1994#5,10911
1993#4,69712
1992#4,56412
1991#3,32518
1990#3,60716
1989#5,1659
1988#7,2705
1987#3,73112
1986#4,4579
1985#5,1477
1984#3,27013
1983#4,9077
1982#4,5938
1981#4,5098
1980#4,1349
1979#4,4038
1978#3,61410
1977#3,03713
1976#2,50817
1975#2,36118
1974#2,19919
1973#3,4459
1972#2,65913
1971#3,9637
1970#3,8367
1969#3,9356
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First appearance
1967

The first year at least five boys were named Akim! It came in at #3,966, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Akim is popular in 1967

No state had 5 or more boys named Akim in 1967, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Akim
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 534 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #4,707)
  • 687 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #4,707)
  • 1,617 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1967
  • Peaked 1974 at #2,199 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1979, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 51,836
  • Highest: 1 in 51,836 boys born in 2023 were named Akim (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,199 in 1974, was only 1 in 82,754 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 22.9% of all boys named Akim (186) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s11#3,935 (1969)#3,951
1970s121#2,199 (1974)#3,203
1980s87#3,270 (1984)#4,718
1990s128#3,325 (1991)#4,706
2000s127#3,922 (2000)#6,287
2010s186#3,716 (2019)#5,347
2020s153#3,474 (2023)#4,207

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.

Akim in 1967

boys
#3,966
5 births · 1 in 348,762 boys

Top boys' names in 1967

  1. #1Michael82,411
  2. #2David66,806
  3. #3James61,683
  4. #4John61,600
  5. #5Robert56,369
  6. #6William37,615
  7. #7Mark34,910
  8. #8Richard33,585
  9. #9Christopher29,413
  10. #10Brian28,646
  11. #3,966Akim5
More about 1967

boys

1,743,811 boys got a published name in 1967; 1 in 348,762 of them was named Akim, which outranked 12.9% of the 4,551 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akim
  1. #3,559Winn6
  2. #3,559Yon6
  3. #3,559Ysabel6
  4. #3,966Akim5
  5. #3,966Aarron5
  6. #3,966Abdullah5
  7. #3,966Abelino5

Tied with 585 names at #3,966; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1966
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,048Alfie#1,963 → #915
  2. ↑ 548Waylon#1,540 → #992
  3. ↑ 519Ariel#1,450 → #931
  4. ↑ 430Brendon#1,345 → #915
  5. ↑ 416Terrill#1,259 → #843
Fallers
  1. ↓ 443German#968 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 396Darry#916 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 346Regan#835 → #1,181
  4. ↓ 337Caleb#916 → #1,253
  5. ↓ 317Winfred#785 → #1,102

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

See the top 100 for 1967 →