Anakin

Where Anakin comes from

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas as early as 1974 in early drafts of Star Wars, which included a character named Annikin Starkiller. First appeared in 1977 in the novel Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker.
— Wiktionary's entry for Anakin
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1995
    First appearance
    #8,868 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2023
    Peak, #544
    541 babies named Anakin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Anakin turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.