Akirah
Akirah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #11,979 among girls’ names; 511 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akirah?
#11,979 among girls’ names, 2025
Akirah fell from #6,728 in 2015 to #11,979 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 4.4 per million.
34 babies in 2009, the peak
Akirah peaked in 2009, when 34 girls were given it, #4,371 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,979 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,259 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,341 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,664 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,257 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,279 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,351 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,167 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,802 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,410 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,728 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,216 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,044 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,588 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,941 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,738 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,371 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,550 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,814 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,687 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,899 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,974 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,211 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,052 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,205 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,211 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,190 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,017 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,844 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,597 | 4.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,479 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akirah, and how old are they?
An estimated 506 Americans named Akirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 375 people named Akirah (369 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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 Akirah?
Akirah is a less common spelling of Akira: SSA has recorded 511 Akirah and 9,837 Akira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,923 babies since 1880, Akirah is the third most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 325 babies (2.2%), again the third 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 Akirah
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 Akirah and names like it
- Compare Akirah and AkiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkirah peaked in 2009.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akirah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Akirah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akirah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.