Aqib — boys' name
198 babies named Aqib in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 2014. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Aqib was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Aqib in 2014 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aqib
The Social Security Administration has registered 198 babies named Aqib between 1992 and 2022, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Aqib currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aqib performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 74 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Aqib shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aqib in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aqib 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 198 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.
Aqib at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aqib popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1992
- Peak year (2014)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 31 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
198 total births across 31 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2014 with 11 births in a single year.
Aqib by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 74 births that decade — 37% of Aqib's all-time total
Aqib decade highlights
- Peak decade 74 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Aqib's strongest decade
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Aqib by state
Where Aqib concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 5.1% |
10 of 198 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 5.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 5.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1992–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.