Akai
Akai was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,753 among boys’ names; 1,078 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Akai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akai?
#1,753 among boys’ names, 2025
Akai rose from #3,687 in 2015 to #1,753 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 53.9 per million.
112 babies in 2023, the peak
Akai peaked in 2023, when 112 babies were given it (102 boys, #1,668 among boys’ names). The 92 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,753 | 53.9 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,134 | 40.0 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,668 | 59.6 |
| 2022 | 90 | #1,805 | 51.5 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,060 | 40.6 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,139 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,228 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,799 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,566 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,162 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,687 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,457 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,061 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,230 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,825 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,681 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,921 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,541 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,663 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,677 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,643 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,139 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,878 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,531 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,264 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,726 | 3.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,824 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,339 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,538 | 2.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,316 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,078 Americans recorded as Akai, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 92 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Akai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akai, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,078 Americans ever recorded as Akai. The median Akai alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 556 people named Akai (101 women and girls, 455 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 23 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 233 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 805 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,658 babies since 1880, Akai is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 292 babies (32%), again the most given.
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 Akai
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 Akai and names like it
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Akai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Akai alive today were born 2013-2025.
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