Akim
Akim was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,708 among boys’ names; 813 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akim?
#4,708 among boys’ names, 2025
Akim rose from #6,332 in 2015 to #4,708 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 12.3 per million.
33 babies in 2023, the peak
Akim peaked in 2023, when 33 boys were given it, #3,472 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,708 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,245 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,472 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,303 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,495 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,021 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,717 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,791 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,223 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,781 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,332 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,062 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,610 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,312 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,581 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,101 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,558 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,490 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,606 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,006 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,232 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,983 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,271 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,466 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,387 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,918 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,657 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,650 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,959 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #5,982 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,510 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,108 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,701 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,568 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,321 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,607 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,165 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,290 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,727 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,459 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,157 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,270 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,924 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,602 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,515 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,143 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,411 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,618 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,038 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,508 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,361 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,197 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,450 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,659 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 7 | #3,966 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,839 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,943 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #3,972 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akim, and how old are they?
An estimated 785 Americans named Akim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 8 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 765 people named Akim (39 women and girls, 726 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,793 babies since 1880, Akim is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 92 babies (23%), again the second 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 Akim
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 Akim and names like it
- Compare Akim and AkeemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAkim peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akim since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Akim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Akim alive today were born 2013-2025.
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