Akim
#4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 19 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 813since 1967
Akim over time
Rank among boys' names. Akim has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #4,707 | 21 |
| 2024 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #3,497 | 32 |
| 2020 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #4,224 | 24 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #4,099 | 24 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #2,361 | 18 |
| 1974 | #2,199 | 19 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
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| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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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 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#917 · 1 in 16,232
Best ever in a state: #718 in New York, 1976.
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| New York | #917 | 7 | 1 in 16,232 |
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See more about Akim
- 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)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1974 at #2,199 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 22.9% of all boys named Akim (186) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,951 |
| 1970s | 121 | #2,199 (1974) | #3,203 |
| 1980s | 87 | #3,270 (1984) | #4,718 |
| 1990s | 128 | #3,325 (1991) | #4,706 |
| 2000s | 127 | #3,922 (2000) | #6,287 |
| 2010s | 186 | #3,716 (2019) | #5,347 |
| 2020s | 153 | #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 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 126,402 of them was named Akim, which outranked 55.7% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,910Waylan14
- #2,910Weslee14
- #2,910Zachry14
- #3,037Akim13
- #3,037Adrion13
- #3,037Agustine13
- #3,037Akiva13
- #3,203Adelbert12
- #3,203Adron12
- #3,203Akira12
Tied with 165 names at #3,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.