Aki — #5945 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Aki

The Social Security Administration has registered 365 babies named Aki between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Aki currently holds the #5945 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Aki is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 248 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aki performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Aki shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aki in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aki 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 365 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.