Akua

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births

Peak · girls
1976 · 15 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
554
since 1971

Akua over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Akua has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #4,154, 1976girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#8,94611
2023#13,4626
2022#11,2318
2021—
2020#11,0908
2019#13,7996
2018#8,61712
2017#10,6899
2016#7,23016
2015#16,4195
2014#10,9559
2013#11,0009
2012#11,2579
2011#12,1538
2010#13,4487
2009#17,2945
2008#12,5798
2007#10,81810
2006#11,4179
2005#10,9219
2004#7,07716
2003#7,99813
2002#10,2469
2001#11,0208
2000#7,15814
1999#6,19116
1998#7,10413
1997#6,16315
1996#6,39214
1995#6,64113
1994#8,8049
1993#6,62213
1992#6,65213
1991#6,25314
1990#7,88010
1989#12,3625
1988#6,27712
1987#7,9878
1986#7,1349
1985#7,5638
1984#8,1537
1983#8,0477
1982#6,37110
1981#5,88511
1980#6,31910
1979#4,62615
1978#4,24216
1977#5,53211
1976#4,15415
1975#5,16111
1974#8,7755
1973#4,58612
1972#5,10910
1971#5,5439
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five girls were named Akua! It came in at #5,543, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2021, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Akua is popular in 1971

No state had 5 or more girls named Akua in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Akua
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,107)
  • 983 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,107)
  • 6,312 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 1976 at #4,154 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 95,741
  • Highest: 1 in 95,741 girls born in 1978 were named Akua (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,154 in 1976, was only 1 in 97,673 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 23.5% of all girls named Akua (130) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s104#4,154 (1976)#5,303
1980s87#5,885 (1981)#7,610
1990s130#6,163 (1997)#6,870
2000s101#7,077 (2004)#10,653
2010s90#7,230 (2016)#11,557
2020s42#8,946 (2024)#10,967

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.

Akua in 1971

girls
#5,543
9 births · 1 in 184,869 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #5,543Akua9
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 184,869 of them was named Akua, which outranked 42.5% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akua
  1. #5,136Yocheved10
  2. #5,136Yuri10
  3. #5,136Zenith10
  4. #5,543Akua9
  5. #5,543Adell9
  6. #5,543Adrean9
  7. #5,543Agueda9
  8. #6,006Abbigail8
  9. #6,006Adonica8
  10. #6,006Adrine8

Tied with 462 names at #5,543; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,115Yesenia#2,522 → #407
  2. ↑ 1,431Shayla#2,267 → #836
  3. ↑ 853Ebony#1,681 → #828
  4. ↑ 749Consuela#1,706 → #957
  5. ↑ 510Candida#1,196 → #686
Fallers
  1. ↓ 572Sebrina#916 → #1,488
  2. ↓ 382Janene#684 → #1,066
  3. ↓ 375Treena#989 → #1,364
  4. ↓ 356Tisa#910 → #1,266
  5. ↓ 351Shaun#929 → #1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1971 →