Akshara
Akshara was given to 66 girls in 2025, #2,609 among girls’ names; 1,973 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Akshara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akshara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akshara?
#2,609 among girls’ names, 2025
Akshara fell from #1,609 in 2015 to #2,609 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 74.5 to 41.1 per million.
150 babies in 2018, the peak
Akshara peaked in 2018, when 150 girls were given it, #1,462 among girls’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,609 | 41.1 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,348 | 48.1 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,555 | 43.0 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,254 | 50.6 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,872 | 64.6 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,037 | 56.3 |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,745 | 70.3 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,462 | 88.2 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,636 | 76.5 |
| 2016 | 146 | #1,541 | 82.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,609 | 74.5 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,781 | 64.4 |
| 2013 | 119 | #1,738 | 67.8 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,859 | 61.3 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,026 | 54.6 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,942 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,592 | 38.6 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,055 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,815 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,554 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,534 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,273 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,007 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,823 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,100 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,417 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,179 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,439 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akshara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akshara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akshara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akshara, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,973 Americans ever recorded as Akshara. The median Akshara alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,630 people named Akshara (1,620 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 557 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
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 Akshara born?
The states with the most babies named Akshara are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,654 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,222 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,041 | 3.0× |
| Washington | 6 | #920 | 1.7× |
Where Akshara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akshara is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1995 it was given 3.0 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 girls’ 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 Akshara 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 Akshara
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 Akshara and names like it
- Compare Akshara and AddelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAkshara peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akshara since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Akshara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Akshara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.