Akhil
Akhil was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,612 among boys’ names; 1,820 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Akhil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akhil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akhil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Akhil is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अखिल (akhila).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akhil?
#5,612 among boys’ names, 2025
Akhil fell from #2,112 in 2015 to #5,612 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 34.4 to 9.4 per million.
95 babies in 2007, the peak
Akhil peaked in 2007, when 95 boys were given it, #1,621 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,612 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,446 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,470 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,570 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,581 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,020 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,637 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,709 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,799 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,552 | 25.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,112 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,017 | 36.4 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,964 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,798 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 86 | #1,719 | 45.3 |
| 2010 | 78 | #1,849 | 40.7 |
| 2009 | 92 | #1,698 | 46.4 |
| 2008 | 88 | #1,719 | 43.1 |
| 2007 | 95 | #1,621 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 86 | #1,654 | 41.8 |
| 2005 | 78 | #1,708 | 39.1 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,970 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 82 | #1,546 | 41.5 |
| 2002 | 76 | #1,594 | 39.1 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,673 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 60 | #1,795 | 30.5 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,929 | 26.0 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,232 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,123 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,543 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,853 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,844 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,000 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,916 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,230 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,166 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,807 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,161 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,096 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,541 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #4,981 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akhil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akhil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akhil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akhil, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,820 Americans ever recorded as Akhil. The median Akhil alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,749 people named Akhil (6 women and girls, 2,743 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 497 |
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).
Where are babies named Akhil born?
The states with the most babies named Akhil are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 316 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 163 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Akhil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akhil is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1984 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Akhil with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,428 babies since 1880, Akhil is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 40 babies (40%), again the second 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 Akhil
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 Akhil and names like it
- Compare Akhil and AkilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkhil peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akhil since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Akhil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Akhil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akhil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.