Akeel
Akeel was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,750 among boys’ names; 121 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akeel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akeel?
#9,750 among boys’ names, 2025
Akeel fell from #8,053 in 2015 to #9,750 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
14 babies in 2021, the peak
Akeel peaked in 2021, when 14 boys were given it, #6,034 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,750 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,419 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,034 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,591 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,053 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,342 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,100 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,395 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,265 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,431 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | #7,145 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,414 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,874 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,700 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,129 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,283 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akeel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akeel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akeel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akeel, and how old are they?
An estimated 118 Americans named Akeel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 6 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 265 people named Akeel (7 women and girls, 258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
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 4,583 babies since 1880, Akeel is the fifth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 53 babies (13%), the fourth 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 Akeel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Shakur | 1,622 |
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 Akeel and names like it
- Compare Akeel and AkilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAkeel peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akeel since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Akeel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Akeel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.