Akacia
Akacia was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 144 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akacia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akacia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,517, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1993, the peak
Akacia peaked in 1993, when 10 girls were given it, #8,061 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,517 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,644 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,533 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,848 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,100 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,464 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,602 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,564 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,641 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,858 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 9 | #10,719 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,344 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,506 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,122 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,831 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,497 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,863 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,434 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,806 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,061 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,496 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akacia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akacia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akacia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akacia, and how old are they?
An estimated 142 Americans named Akacia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 147 people named Akacia (147 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Akacia?
Akacia is a less common spelling of Acacia: SSA has recorded 144 Akacia and 4,310 Acacia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,656 babies since 1880, Akacia is the fourth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 76 babies recorded by SSA was a Akacia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Akacia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Akacia and names like it
- Compare Akacia and AcaciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAkacia peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Akacia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akacia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.