Akari
Akari is given to both girls and boys: 104 girls and 554 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,881 among girls’ names and #542 among boys’, #946 among all names counting both); 2,410 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Akari every year since 2025.
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Akari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 1 and 11.
Akari climbed 1,089 places in 2025, the #2 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akari?
#542 among boys’ names, 2025
Akari rose from #4,892 in 2015 to #542 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.01 to 0.32 per 1,000.
658 babies in 2025, the peak
Akari peaked in 2025, when 658 babies were given it (554 boys, #542 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 104 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,881 | 554 | #542 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,871 | 104 | #1,631 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,813 | 108 | #1,608 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,446 | 71 | #2,094 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,716 | 53 | #2,499 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,968 | 58 | #2,322 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,668 | 50 | #2,583 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,747 | 40 | #2,944 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,066 | 33 | #3,381 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,928 | 22 | #4,471 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #4,984 | 19 | #4,892 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,587 | 24 | #4,136 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,780 | 27 | #3,753 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,365 | 22 | #4,391 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,246 | 14 | #5,951 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,223 | 15 | #5,741 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,712 | 12 | #6,811 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,351 | 11 | #7,198 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,560 | 9 | #8,185 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,596 | 6 | #10,702 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,508 | 7 | #9,137 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,772 | 5 | #11,394 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,445 | 6 | #9,602 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,897 | 8 | #7,656 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,071 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,487 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,452 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,469 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,864 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,150 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,085 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,597 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,527 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,989 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Akari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,410 Americans recorded as Akari, 47% are girls and 53% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Akari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akari, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,410 Americans ever recorded as Akari. The median Akari alive today is 4 years old; half are between 1 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 942 people named Akari (676 women and girls, 266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 404 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,950 |
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).
Where are babies named Akari born?
The states with the most babies named Akari are Texas, Florida and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 55 | #700 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 47 | #412 | 0.7× |
| New York | 37 | #502 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 35 | #330 | 0.9× |
| California | 34 | #958 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 34 | #350 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #387 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 27 | #395 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 21 | #260 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 20 | #268 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Akari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,925 babies since 1880, Akari is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 658 of their 752 babies (88%), 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 Akari
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 Akari and names like it
- Compare Akari and AkhariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAkari peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akari since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Akari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Akari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.