Akasha
Akasha was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,104 among girls’ names; 1,433 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Akasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akasha?
#5,104 among girls’ names, 2025
Akasha fell from #3,769 in 2015 to #5,104 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 15.6 per million.
132 babies in 2003, the peak
Akasha peaked in 2003, when 132 girls were given it, #1,476 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,104 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,965 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,567 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,792 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,882 | 23.2 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,010 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,655 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,677 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,698 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,994 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,769 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,895 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,145 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,990 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,211 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,204 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,087 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,120 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,128 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,757 | 33.7 |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,105 | 47.6 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,116 | 46.3 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,476 | 72.2 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,225 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,072 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,312 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,217 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,536 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,872 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,880 | 43.9 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,874 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,986 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,619 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,267 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,805 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,464 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,531 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,280 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,339 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,408 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,452 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,300 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akasha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akasha, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,433 Americans ever recorded as Akasha. The median Akasha alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,106 people named Akasha (1,063 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 208 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 801 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 394 |
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,392 babies since 1880, Akasha is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 babies (100%), 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 Akasha
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 Akasha and names like it
- Compare Akasha and AkishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkasha peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akasha since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Akasha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akasha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.