Akira — #958 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Akira

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,555 babies named Akira between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Akira currently holds the #958 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 424 babies received it in a single year. Akira is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,968 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Akira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,625 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Akira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 700 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Akira in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Akira in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,555 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.