Akiva
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #1,466 for boys in 2025, 121 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,794since 1961
Akiva over time
Rank among boys' names. Akiva has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,466 | 121 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,494 | 120 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,440 | 126 |
| 2022 | — | #1,566 | 113 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,583 | 109 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,262 | 145 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | — | #1,612 | 99 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,675 | 94 |
| 2015 | — | #2,019 | 71 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,730 | 87 | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #1,624 | 94 |
| 2012 | — | #1,891 | 76 | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,886 | 74 |
| 2010 | — | #1,850 | 78 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,839 | 80 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,736 | 87 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #2,238 | 51 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,372 | 43 |
| 2001 | — | #1,912 | 57 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #2,254 | 36 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | — | #2,618 | 28 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,399 | 31 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,544 | 27 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,902 | 21 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,682 | 21 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,838 | 18 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,504 | 20 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,529 | 19 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,284 | 22 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #1,586 | 30 |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akiva! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Akiva is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#749 · 1 in 12,616
Best ever in a state: #224 in New Jersey, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #749 | 9 | 1 in 12,616 |
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See more about Akiva
- 28 spots since 2024 (#1,494 → #1,466)
- 204 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,466)
- 553 spots since 2015 (#2,019 → #1,466)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2020 at #1,262 (145 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,904 boys born in 2020 were named Akiva (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,116 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.9% of all boys named Akiva (835) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #3,935 (1969) | #4,000 |
| 1970s | 125 | #1,586 (1973) | #2,997 |
| 1980s | 177 | #2,284 (1980) | #2,836 |
| 1990s | 329 | #1,964 (1997) | #2,435 |
| 2000s | 583 | #1,736 (2008) | #2,132 |
| 2010s | 835 | #1,612 (2017) | #1,800 |
| 2020s | 734 | #1,262 (2020) | #1,469 |
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.
Akiva in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 137,783 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 55.8% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,030Zakee14
- #3,030Zenon14
- #3,030Zephaniah14
- #3,221Akiva13
- #3,221Adolphus13
- #3,221Alistair13
- #3,221Andrell13
- #3,412Adriana12
- #3,412Adriano12
- #3,412Agustine12
Tied with 190 names at #3,221; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.