Akira
#983 for girls in 2025, 257 births · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to girls 79.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 424 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,817since 1973
Akira 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 | #983 | 257 | #2,539 | 52 |
| 2024 | #952 | 274 | #2,502 | 54 |
| 2023 | #1,018 | 248 | #2,660 | 49 |
| 2022 | #1,259 | 190 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #1,191 | 204 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #1,152 | 205 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #1,145 | 210 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #1,135 | 215 | #2,708 | 45 |
| 2017 | #1,030 | 251 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #1,012 | 261 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #1,026 | 260 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #1,092 | 233 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #1,080 | 229 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #958 | 265 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #938 | 275 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | #835 | 322 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #819 | 345 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #707 | 424 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #845 | 336 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #970 | 270 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #1,042 | 229 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #1,144 | 199 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #1,057 | 213 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #923 | 242 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | #1,056 | 202 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #1,203 | 165 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #1,108 | 179 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #1,065 | 183 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 143 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #1,656 | 92 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #1,761 | 82 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #2,353 | 55 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,523 | 47 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,121 | 12 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,777 | 17 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,361 | 26 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,753 | 18 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,195 | 34 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,188 | 36 | |
| 1927 | — | #937 | 54 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,404 | 27 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,360 | 29 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,223 | 35 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,194 | 36 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,140 | 39 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,296 | 32 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,747 | 20 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,321 | 29 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,256 | 31 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,188 | 13 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,849 | 16 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,968 | 14 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,092 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akira! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Akira is popular in 1920
No state had 5 or more girls named Akira in 1920, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Akira
- 31 spots since 2024 (#952 → #983)
- 169 spots since 2020 (#1,152 → #983)
- 43 spots since 2015 (#1,026 → #983)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 2008 (#845 → #707)
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2003 (#923 → #1,057)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2008 at #707 (424 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2006–2012
- Highest: 1 in 4,460 girls born in 2008 were named Akira (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,254 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 33.6% of all girls named Akira (2,625) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1981, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #4,459 (1978) | #6,029 |
| 1980s | 288 | #2,022 (1983) | #3,833 |
| 1990s | 955 | #1,065 (1998) | #1,858 |
| 2000s | 2,625 | #707 (2008) | #977 |
| 2010s | 2,521 | #835 (2010) | #1,025 |
| 2020s | 1,378 | #952 (2024) | #1,093 |
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.
Akira in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 53,218 of them was named Akira, which outranked 65.0% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,694Woodford21
- #1,694Woody21
- #1,694Young21
- #1,747Akira20
- #1,747Adelard20
- #1,747Alcide20
- #1,747Alphonsus20
- #1,820Acy19
- #1,820Alexis19
- #1,820Arbie19
Tied with 72 names at #1,747; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.