Akirah
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 34 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 511since 1993
Akirah over time
Rank among girls' names. Akirah has never cracked the top 4,000 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 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akirah! It came in at #13,442, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1995, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Akirah is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#3,633 · 1 in 46,954
Best ever in a state: #1,425 in North Carolina, 2008.
Show every state
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| California | #3,633 | 5 | 1 in 46,954 |
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See more about Akirah
- 4,681 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #11,932)
- 1,682 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #11,932)
- 5,211 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2009 at #4,370 (34 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 54,033 girls born in 2009 were named Akirah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.1% of all girls named Akirah (220) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 53 | #6,191 (1999) | #8,815 |
| 2000s | 220 | #4,370 (2009) | #6,093 |
| 2010s | 185 | #4,735 (2010) | #6,787 |
| 2020s | 53 | #7,251 (2024) | #10,924 |
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.
Akirah in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
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1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 63,374 of them was named Akirah, which outranked 76.6% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,576Tziporah31
- #4,576Uriah31
- #4,576Zakiah31
- #4,685Akirah30
- #4,685Adalie30
- #4,685Agustina30
- #4,685Aisling30
- #4,811Aayla29
- #4,811Abegail29
- #4,811Adanna29
Tied with 125 names at #4,685; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.