Aki
Aki was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,402 among boys’ names; 630 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aki mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Aki is “a male given name”
Originally a diminutive form of Joakim, less often of Aukusti or Akseli.
/ˈɑki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aki?
#5,402 among boys’ names, 2025
Aki rose from #7,502 in 2015 to #5,402 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 10.0 per million.
22 babies in 2016, the peak
Aki peaked in 2016, when 22 babies were given it (15 boys, #5,795 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 17 | #5,402 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 15 | #5,906 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 11 | #7,300 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,661 | 14 | #6,155 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 16 | #5,565 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,188 | 8 | #8,763 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,877 | 11 | #7,186 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,865 | 14 | #6,040 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,210 | 9 | #8,165 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,930 | 15 | #5,795 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #14,561 | 10 | #7,502 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,605 | 7 | #9,666 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,014 | 13 | #6,248 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 9 | #8,172 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #8,782 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,498 | 8 | #8,819 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,385 | 10 | #7,701 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,466 | 8 | #9,027 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,707 | 7 | #9,805 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,645 | 11 | #6,912 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,554 | 5 | #11,506 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 9 | #7,546 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,449 | 10 | #6,720 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,143 | 5 | #10,706 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 11 | #6,015 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,394 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,459 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #8,487 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,106 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,825 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,812 | 5 | #8,897 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,570 | 7 | #6,829 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,762 | 6 | #7,441 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,344 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,993 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,768 | 6 | #6,949 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,933 | 7 | #5,340 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,570 | 6 | #5,792 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,403 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #4,922 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,891 | 6 | #5,634 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,413 | 6 | #5,486 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,184 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,230 | 8 | #4,410 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,766 | 6 | #5,071 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,135 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #4,945 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,077 | 8 | #3,946 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,261 | 8 | #3,839 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,108 | |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,964 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #3,965 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 630 Americans recorded as Aki, 39% are girls and 61% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aki, and how old are they?
An estimated 613 Americans named Aki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,151 people named Aki (725 women and girls, 426 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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.
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 31,396 babies since 1880, Aki is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 2,462 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Aki
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 Aki and names like it
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- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aki: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aki.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aki alive today were born 2013-2025.
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