Akisha
Akisha was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 373 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,555, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1977, the peak
Akisha peaked in 1977, when 45 girls were given it, #2,091 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #16,555 | 2.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,869 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,587 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,776 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,812 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,809 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,184 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,533 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,670 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,793 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | #7,758 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,034 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,970 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,824 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,348 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,858 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,749 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,078 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,802 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,091 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,487 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,054 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,227 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,873 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Akisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 41 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 347 people named Akisha (344 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 361 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,392 babies since 1880, Akisha is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Akisha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Akisha
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 Akisha and names like it
- Compare Akisha and AkashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAkisha peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Akisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Akisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.