Akil
Akil was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,403 among boys’ names; 2,147 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Akil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Akil is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akil?
#5,403 among boys’ names, 2025
Akil fell from #3,432 in 2015 to #5,403 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 10.0 per million.
82 babies in 1994, the peak
Akil peaked in 1994, when 82 boys were given it, #1,284 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,403 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,216 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,455 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,702 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,424 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,651 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 42 | #2,899 | 23.4 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,527 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,716 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,682 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,432 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,896 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,662 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,805 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,511 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,379 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,332 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,484 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,693 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,448 | 24.3 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,078 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,235 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,779 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,424 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,114 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,011 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 65 | #1,639 | 33.9 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,272 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,905 | 25.5 |
| 1996 | 59 | #1,635 | 31.1 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,308 | 42.0 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,284 | 42.4 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,335 | 36.7 |
| 1992 | 64 | #1,424 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,551 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,560 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,900 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,811 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,211 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,599 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,115 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,159 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,786 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,463 | 23.7 |
| 1981 | 47 | #1,373 | 26.2 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,497 | 23.0 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,370 | 26.7 |
| 1978 | 41 | #1,452 | 25.0 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,268 | 29.8 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,571 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,429 | 24.3 |
| 1974 | 33 | #1,520 | 21.0 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,612 | 18.6 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,082 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,146 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,237 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akil, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,147 Americans ever recorded as Akil. The median Akil alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,931 people named Akil (19 women and girls, 1,912 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,937 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 314 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 706 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 656 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 390 |
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 Akil born?
The states with the most babies named Akil are New York, California and New Jersey, with 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 401 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| California | 108 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Akil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akil is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 2.8 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 Akil 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,583 babies since 1880, Akil is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 53 babies (32%), again the 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 Akil
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 Akil and names like it
- Compare Akil and AkhilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAkil peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akil since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Akil.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Akil alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.