Akari — #1869 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Akari

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,028 babies named Akari between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Akari currently holds the #1869 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 111 babies received it in a single year. Akari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 723 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Akari performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 409 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Akari shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 110 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Akari in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Akari in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,028 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.