Akshay
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,808since 1981
Akshay over time
Rank among boys' names. Akshay 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #4,362 | 23 |
| 2020 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #2,885 | 40 |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 53 |
| 2012 | #2,488 | 50 |
| 2011 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #1,975 | 71 |
| 2008 | #1,708 | 89 |
| 2007 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2006 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #1,772 | 74 |
| 2004 | #1,731 | 73 |
| 2003 | #1,687 | 73 |
| 2002 | #1,505 | 83 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 63 |
| 2000 | #1,699 | 67 |
| 1999 | #1,749 | 58 |
| 1998 | #1,558 | 68 |
| 1997 | #1,648 | 61 |
| 1996 | #1,933 | 46 |
| 1995 | #1,648 | 55 |
| 1994 | #1,664 | 54 |
| 1993 | #2,007 | 40 |
| 1992 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
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| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akshay! It came in at #4,509, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Akshay is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#922 · 1 in 8,306
- Virginia#940 · 1 in 8,595
- New Jersey#995 · 1 in 9,117
- California#1,056 · 1 in 13,377
- Pennsylvania#1,119 · 1 in 12,774
Best ever in a state: #471 in New Jersey, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #922 | 9 | 1 in 8,306 |
| Virginia | #940 | 5 | 1 in 8,595 |
| New Jersey | #995 | 5 | 1 in 9,117 |
| California | #1,056 | 19 | 1 in 13,377 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,119 | 5 | 1 in 12,774 |
| New York | #1,794 | 5 | 1 in 21,823 |
| Texas | #1,817 | 7 | 1 in 27,028 |
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See more about Akshay
- 1,710 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #6,143)
- 1,603 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #6,143)
- 3,224 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2002 at #1,505 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,923 boys born in 2008 were named Akshay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,505 in 2002, was only 1 in 23,392 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.7% of all boys named Akshay (736) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 65 | #3,268 (1986) | #5,089 |
| 1990s | 437 | #1,558 (1998) | #2,240 |
| 2000s | 736 | #1,505 (2002) | #1,771 |
| 2010s | 450 | #2,010 (2010) | #2,777 |
| 2020s | 120 | #4,362 (2021) | #4,897 |
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.
Akshay in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 22,923 of them was named Akshay, which outranked 88.3% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,692Rayshawn90
- #1,692Sameer90
- #1,692Zakaria90
- #1,708Akshay89
- #1,708Akeem89
- #1,708Azriel89
- #1,708Brayson89
- #1,719Akhil88
- #1,719Amin88
- #1,719Andrey88
Tied with 10 names at #1,708; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.