Akeela
Akeela was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 197 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akeela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akeela?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,395, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2006, the peak
Akeela peaked in 2006, when 17 girls were given it, #7,151 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,395 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,253 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,193 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,208 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,069 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,135 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,657 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,536 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,878 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,279 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #13,760 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,101 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,105 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,151 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,550 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,903 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,194 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,086 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,807 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,607 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,759 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,991 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,153 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,535 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,093 | 8.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akeela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akeela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akeela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akeela, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Akeela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 261 people named Akeela (255 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Akeela rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Akeela?
Akeela is a less common spelling of Akeelah: SSA has recorded 197 Akeela and 1,533 Akeelah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,355 babies since 1880, Akeela is the eighth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 51 babies recorded by SSA was a Akeela (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Akeela
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 Akeela and names like it
- Compare Akeela and AkeelahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkeela peaked in 2006.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akeela since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Akeela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akeela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.