Akera
Akera was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 258 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,518, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 2008, the peak
Akera peaked in 2008, when 22 girls were given it, #6,135 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,518 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,646 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,537 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,168 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,528 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,486 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,135 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,743 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,878 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,051 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 8 | #11,650 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,690 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,051 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,204 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,765 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,414 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,273 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,040 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,555 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,580 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,809 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,499 | 3.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,387 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,813 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,165 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,221 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,480 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 258 Americans recorded as Akera, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Akera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akera, and how old are they?
An estimated 254 Americans named Akera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 270 people named Akera (258 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 255 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,157 babies since 1880, Akera is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 325 babies recorded by SSA was a Akera (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 Akera
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 Akera and names like it
- Compare Akera and AkiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkera peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Akera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.