Akash
Akash was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,401 among boys’ names; 2,376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Akash and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akash by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akash mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Akash is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit आकाश (ākāśa).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akash?
#4,401 among boys’ names, 2025
Akash fell from #2,686 in 2015 to #4,401 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 13.5 per million.
117 babies in 2002, the peak
Akash peaked in 2002, when 117 boys were given it, #1,189 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,401 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,693 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,346 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,535 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,010 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,926 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,584 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,170 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,567 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,163 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,686 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,037 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,423 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,594 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,852 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,117 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,050 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,000 | 34.3 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,954 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,738 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,672 | 40.1 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,290 | 57.9 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,252 | 58.2 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,189 | 60.3 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,425 | 44.8 |
| 2000 | 71 | #1,637 | 36.2 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,405 | 43.2 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,472 | 39.2 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,420 | 40.3 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,596 | 32.2 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,334 | 40.4 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,603 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 58 | #1,549 | 29.6 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,393 | 33.0 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,353 | 34.2 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,963 | 18.5 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,465 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,677 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,464 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,889 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,827 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,705 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,142 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,017 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,605 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,838 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,069 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,070 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,909 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,019 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,317 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akash a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akash has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akash: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akash, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,376 Americans ever recorded as Akash. The median Akash alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,912 people named Akash (19 women and girls, 3,893 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 549 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 486 |
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 Akash born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,832 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,293 | 0.5× |
Where Akash is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akash is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Akash 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 5,112 babies since 1880, Akash is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 63 babies (37%), the second most given that year.
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 Akash
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 Akash and names like it
- Compare Akash and AkashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkash peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akash since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Akash: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Akash.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akash alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.