Akio
Akio was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,181 among boys’ names; 587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akio mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Akio is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese あきお (Akio).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akio?
#3,181 among boys’ names, 2025
Akio rose from #7,077 in 2015 to #3,181 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 21.7 per million.
37 babies in 2025, the peak
Akio peaked in 2025, when 37 boys were given it, #3,181 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 26 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,181 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,074 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,473 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,616 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,496 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,856 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,957 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,775 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,061 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,948 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,077 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,639 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,249 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,721 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,258 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,049 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,559 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,769 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,436 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,913 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,873 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,978 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,721 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,092 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,935 | 4.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,577 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,140 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,825 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,442 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,189 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,925 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,158 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,333 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,282 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,269 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,073 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,263 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,478 | 3.2 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,280 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,646 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,780 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,096 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,590 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,845 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,799 | 16.9 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,314 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,817 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,737 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akio, and how old are they?
An estimated 503 Americans named Akio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Akio (14 women and girls, 574 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,531 babies since 1880, Akio is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 202 babies (18%), 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 Akio
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 Akio and names like it
- Compare Akio and AcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAkio peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akio since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Akio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Akio.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Akio alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.