Akshay

Where Akshay comes from

Transliteration of Hindi अक्षय (akṣay).
— Wiktionary's entry for Akshay
  • Hindi
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1981
    First appearance
    #4,509 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2002
    Peak, #1,505
    83 babies named Akshay — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,885.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hindi.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Akshay hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.