Akshay
Akshay was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,155 among boys’ names; 1,808 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Akshay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akshay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akshay mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Akshay is “a male given name from Hindi.”
Transliteration of Hindi अक्षय (akṣay).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akshay?
#6,155 among boys’ names, 2025
Akshay fell from #2,919 in 2015 to #6,155 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 8.2 per million.
89 babies in 2008, the peak
Akshay peaked in 2008, when 89 boys were given it, #1,709 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,155 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,435 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,886 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,019 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,364 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,540 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,199 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,792 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,952 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,726 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,919 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,886 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,364 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,490 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,437 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,010 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 71 | #1,974 | 35.8 |
| 2008 | 89 | #1,709 | 43.6 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,017 | 33.2 |
| 2006 | 74 | #1,841 | 36.0 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,769 | 37.0 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,728 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,684 | 37.0 |
| 2002 | 83 | #1,502 | 42.8 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,774 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 67 | #1,695 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 58 | #1,746 | 30.2 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,556 | 35.6 |
| 1997 | 61 | #1,646 | 32.4 |
| 1996 | 46 | #1,930 | 24.3 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,643 | 28.9 |
| 1994 | 54 | #1,659 | 27.9 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,002 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,903 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,810 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,464 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,926 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,757 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,573 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,267 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,159 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,558 | 4.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,018 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,516 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akshay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akshay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akshay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akshay, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,808 Americans ever recorded as Akshay. The median Akshay alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 4,051 people named Akshay (12 women and girls, 4,039 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 302 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 398 |
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 Akshay born?
The states with the most babies named Akshay are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 340 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 131 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 92 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Akshay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akshay is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1981 it was given 2.6 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 Akshay 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 Akshay
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 Akshay and names like it
- Compare Akshay and JacoreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkshay peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akshay since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Akshay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akshay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.