Akiba — unisex name

What the Data Says About Akiba

The Social Security Administration has registered 87 babies named Akiba between 1970 and 1992, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Akiba currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Akiba is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Akiba performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 75 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Akiba shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Akiba in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Akiba 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 87 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.