Akelah — girls' name
64 babies named Akelah in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
64 girls have been named Akelah since 1994, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2019.
- 64
- total births
- 1994–2019
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 45%
- born in that decade
45% of everyone ever named Akelah was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Akelah in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Akelah
The Social Security Administration has registered 64 babies named Akelah between 1994 and 2019, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Akelah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Akelah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 29 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Akelah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Akelah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 64 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Akelah at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Akelah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1994
- Peak year (2002)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
64 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 8 births in a single year.
Akelah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 29 births that decade — 45% of Akelah's all-time total
Akelah decade highlights
- Peak decade 29 births
- Runner-up 20 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Akelah's strongest decade
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1994–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.