Akshara
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 150 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,973since 1995
Akshara over time
Rank among girls' names. Akshara 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,607 | 66 |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 |
| 2023 | #2,555 | 69 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 |
| 2021 | #1,871 | 106 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 |
| 2019 | #1,745 | 118 |
| 2018 | #1,461 | 150 |
| 2017 | #1,636 | 132 |
| 2016 | #1,541 | 146 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 |
| 2014 | #1,781 | 115 |
| 2013 | #1,737 | 119 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 |
| 2011 | #2,026 | 96 |
| 2010 | #1,942 | 103 |
| 2009 | #2,592 | 71 |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
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| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akshara! It came in at #13,386, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1998, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Akshara is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#539 · 1 in 2,613
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,808
- Georgia#912 · 1 in 4,805
- Washington#971 · 1 in 5,357
- California#1,043 · 1 in 6,791
Best ever in a state: #453 in New Jersey, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #539 | 14 | 1 in 2,613 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Georgia | #912 | 10 | 1 in 4,805 |
| Washington | #971 | 6 | 1 in 5,357 |
| California | #1,043 | 30 | 1 in 6,791 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 9 | 1 in 6,403 |
| Virginia | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 7,428 |
| Texas | #1,261 | 20 | 1 in 8,365 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,415 | 5 | 1 in 10,371 |
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See more about Akshara
- 260 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,607)
- 573 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #2,607)
- 998 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #2,607)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2018 at #1,461 (150 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,340 girls born in 2018 were named Akshara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.8% of all girls named Akshara (1,220) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 17 | #11,385 (1999) | #12,964 |
| 2000s | 243 | #2,592 (2009) | #6,629 |
| 2010s | 1,220 | #1,461 (2018) | #1,734 |
| 2020s | 493 | #1,871 (2021) | #2,278 |
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.
Akshara in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 12,137 of them was named Akshara, which outranked 91.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).