Akiva — #1521 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Akiva

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,668 babies named Akiva between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Akiva currently holds the #1521 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 145 babies received it in a single year. Akiva is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 138 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Akiva performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 835 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Akiva shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,149 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Akiva in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Akiva 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 2,668 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.