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
Anakin through the years
  1. 1995
    First appearance
    #8,868 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Around this time: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
    Film, 1999 · Source
  3. 2023
    Peak, #544
    541 babies named Anakin, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Anakin in Wikidata.

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.