Akisha

Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462

Peak · girls
1977 · 45 births
Debut · girls
11 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
373
since 1973

Akisha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Akisha has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201975peak #2,091, 1977girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1997#10,8367
1996#10,5677
1995#8,7669
1994#11,7786
1993#11,7806
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1988#6,66611
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1985#6,03111
1984#4,96614
1983#5,82411
1982#4,34717
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Akisha! It came in at #4,871, and was given to 11 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Akisha is popular in 1975

No state had 5 or more girls named Akisha in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Akisha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1977 at #2,091 (45 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,070
  • Highest: 1 in 34,070 girls born in 1977 were named Akisha (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 369,568 girls born in 2005 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 48.5% of all girls named Akisha (181) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s181#2,091 (1977)#3,229
1980s147#2,749 (1980)#5,551
1990s40#8,766 (1995)#11,146
2000s5#16,462 (2005)#16,462

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.

Akisha in 1975

girls
#3,052
23 births · 1 in 63,385 girls

Top girls' names in 1975

  1. #1Jennifer58,190
  2. #2Amy32,254
  3. #3Heather24,301
  4. #4Melissa24,168
  5. #5Angela23,361
  6. #6Michelle22,665
  7. #7Kimberly20,257
  8. #8Lisa18,139
  9. #9Stephanie15,775
  10. #10Nicole14,275
  11. #3,052Akisha23
More about 1975

girls

1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 63,385 of them was named Akisha, which outranked 71.3% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akisha
  1. #2,969Vernetta24
  2. #2,969Virgie24
  3. #2,969Walter24
  4. #3,052Akisha23
  5. #3,052Adia23
  6. #3,052Akia23
  7. #3,052Aline23
  8. #3,155Aide22
  9. #3,155Alea22
  10. #3,155Alethia22

Tied with 102 names at #3,052; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1974
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,732Pepper#2,683 → #951
  2. ↑ 1,666Mandie#2,396 → #730
  3. ↑ 1,140Tiana#1,772 → #632
  4. ↑ 779Lacy#1,486 → #707
  5. ↑ 719Lacey#1,284 → #565
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Nia#672 → #1,119
  2. ↓ 429Alethea#716 → #1,145
  3. ↓ 404Cicely#608 → #1,012
  4. ↓ 307Elaina#994 → #1,301
  5. ↓ 303Cristin#938 → #1,241

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

See the top 100 for 1975 →