Akram
Akram was given to 64 boys in 2025, #2,208 among boys’ names; 1,453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Akram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akram mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Akram is “a male given name from Arabic”
Borrowed from Arabic أَكْرَم (ʔakram).
/a.kʁam/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akram?
#2,208 among boys’ names, 2025
Akram rose from #2,564 in 2015 to #2,208 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.0 to 37.5 per million.
85 babies in 2023, the peak
Akram peaked in 2023, when 85 boys were given it, #1,868 among boys’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,208 | 37.5 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,562 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 85 | #1,868 | 49.7 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,190 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,652 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 71 | #1,997 | 41.1 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,129 | 37.3 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,230 | 33.6 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,883 | 41.6 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,438 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,564 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,754 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,582 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,114 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,167 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,710 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,897 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,043 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,509 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,687 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,617 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,366 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,528 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,093 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 30 | #2,986 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,761 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,985 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,875 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,877 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,674 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,843 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,322 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,040 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,870 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,631 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,966 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,809 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,756 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,098 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,460 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,070 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,272 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,256 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,603 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,860 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,256 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,071 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,860 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,169 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,432 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,514 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akram has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akram, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,453 Americans ever recorded as Akram. The median Akram alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,910 people named Akram (458 women and girls, 2,452 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,067 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 422 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 757 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Akram born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 23 | #263 | 6.6× |
| California | 6 | #2,213 | 0.3× |
Where Akram is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akram is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1973 it was given 6.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Akram with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Akram
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 Akram and names like it
- Compare Akram and AhronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAkram peaked in 2023.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akram since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Akram: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Akram.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Akram alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.