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 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#433 · 1 in 3,185
- New Jersey#555 · 1 in 4,693
- Pennsylvania#919 · 1 in 10,631
- California#1,968 · 1 in 36,309
Best ever in a state: #224 in New Jersey, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #433 | 34 | 1 in 3,185 |
| New Jersey | #555 | 10 | 1 in 4,693 |
| Pennsylvania | #919 | 6 | 1 in 10,631 |
| California | #1,968 | 7 | 1 in 36,309 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 307,974 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 24.5% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,010Zonia7
- #13,010Zsofia7
- #13,010Zuliana7
- #14,502Akiva6
- #14,502Aailyah6
- #14,502Aalayjah6
- #14,502Aania6
- #16,462Aalana5
- #16,462Aaliyaha5
- #16,462Aaliyiah5
Tied with 1,959 names at #14,502; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 28,131 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 86.4% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,801Isacc72
- #1,801Lleyton72
- #1,801Tyce72
- #1,813Akiva71
- #1,813Anirudh71
- #1,813Babyboy71
- #1,813Brannon71
- #1,838Aarav70
- #1,838Ansel70
- #1,838Benjamen70
Tied with 24 names at #1,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.