Akila
Akila was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,384 among girls’ names; 730 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akila?
#8,384 among girls’ names, 2025
Akila fell from #6,037 in 2015 to #8,384 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 7.5 per million.
29 babies in 1997, the peak
Akila peaked in 1997, when 29 girls were given it, #3,814 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,384 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,153 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,340 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,073 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,038 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,936 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,153 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,165 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,812 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,244 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,037 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,158 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,273 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,215 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,735 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,529 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,064 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,540 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,841 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,598 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,344 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,730 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,796 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,291 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,364 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,035 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,243 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,370 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,814 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,736 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,216 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,711 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,095 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,717 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,430 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,505 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,956 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,893 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,847 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,163 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,081 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,819 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,152 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,210 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,574 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,248 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,094 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,681 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,234 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,171 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,859 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,689 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akila, and how old are they?
An estimated 716 Americans named Akila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,060 people named Akila (973 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 655 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Akila?
Akila is a less common spelling of Akilah: SSA has recorded 730 Akila and 3,012 Akilah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,838 babies since 1880, Akila is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 46 babies (26%), the 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 Akila
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 Akila and names like it
- Compare Akila and AkilahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAkila peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akila since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Akila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.