Akilah
Akilah was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,472 among girls’ names; 3,012 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,940 Americans named Akilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akilah?
#9,472 among girls’ names, 2025
Akilah fell from #6,243 in 2015 to #9,472 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 6.2 per million.
115 babies in 1993, the peak
Akilah peaked in 1993, when 115 girls were given it, #1,409 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,472 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,980 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,646 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,910 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,611 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,547 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,800 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,892 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,346 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,854 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,243 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,215 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,919 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,602 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,998 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,888 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,575 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,781 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,129 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,354 | 42.1 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,785 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,176 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,797 | 30.1 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,349 | 37.8 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,737 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,774 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,281 | 36.6 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,304 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,622 | 55.7 |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,436 | 65.0 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,666 | 50.0 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,793 | 44.8 |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,409 | 63.6 |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,585 | 52.6 |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,622 | 49.1 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,048 | 34.2 |
| 1989 | 63 | #1,993 | 34.2 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,948 | 34.8 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,879 | 35.1 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,909 | 33.8 |
| 1985 | 47 | #2,203 | 27.3 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,149 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 75 | #1,512 | 44.9 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,445 | 49.0 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,528 | 46.8 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,328 | 57.2 |
| 1979 | 95 | #1,314 | 59.2 |
| 1978 | 93 | #1,299 | 60.7 |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,331 | 56.1 |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,422 | 50.5 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,626 | 41.2 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,616 | 39.5 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,507 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,524 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akilah, and how old are they?
2,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,012 Americans ever recorded as Akilah. The median Akilah alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,542 people named Akilah (2,532 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 571 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 865 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 309 |
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 Akilah born?
The states with the most babies named Akilah are New York, California and Georgia, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 364 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 287 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 142 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 126 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 76 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 59 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 43 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Akilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akilah is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 1.8 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 girls’ 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 Akilah 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,841 babies since 1880, Akilah is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 54 babies (19%), the third 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 Akilah
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 Akilah and names like it
- Compare Akilah and AkeelahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAkilah peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akilah since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Akilah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Akilah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.