Aakash

#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births

Peak · boys
1992 · 44 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,049
since 1979

Aakash over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Aakash has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998peak #1,844, 1992boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,2439
2024#6,46913
2023#5,66616
2022#12,3305
2021#4,78020
2020#5,69915
2019#5,34017
2018#4,47622
2017#5,52616
2016#4,62421
2015#5,28917
2014#3,37132
2013#3,49730
2012#3,23134
2011#3,23534
2010#3,63329
2009#3,72128
2008#3,92126
2007#3,02538
2006#3,30632
2005#3,09133
2004#2,88735
2003#2,31246
2002#2,15549
2001#2,79733
2000#3,07528
1999#3,18225
1998#2,78229
1997#2,39634
1996#2,59029
1995#2,34633
1994#2,18137
1993#2,25734
1992#1,84444
1991#4,23113
1990#3,77915
1989#3,44616
1988#5,7517
1987#3,95911
1986#3,88211
1985#4,3339
1984#4,5528
1983#5,4846
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five boys were named Aakash! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Aakash
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,774 spots since 2024 (#6,469#8,243)
  • 2,544 spots since 2020 (#5,699#8,243)
  • 2,954 spots since 2015 (#5,289#8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 1992 at #1,844 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 23 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 39,623
  • Highest: 1 in 39,623 boys born in 2002 were named Aakash (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,844 in 1992, was only 1 in 45,396 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 33.2% of all boys named Aakash (348) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
1980s73#3,446 (1989)#4,709
1990s293#1,844 (1992)#2,759
2000s348#2,155 (2002)#3,029
2010s252#3,231 (2012)#4,222
2020s78#4,780 (2021)#7,198

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aakash in 1998

boys
#2,782
29 births · 1 in 65,909 boys

Top boys' names in 1998

  1. #1Michael36,618
  2. #2Jacob36,031
  3. #3Matthew31,146
  4. #4Joshua28,095
  5. #5Christopher27,007
  6. #6Nicholas26,632
  7. #7Brandon23,832
  8. #8Tyler23,712
  9. #9Andrew23,664
  10. #10Austin23,478
  11. #2,782Aakash29
More about 1998

boys

1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 65,909 of them was named Aakash, which outranked 75.4% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aakash
  1. #2,711Vinay30
  2. #2,711Yancy30
  3. #2,711Zak30
  4. #2,782Aakash29
  5. #2,782Abbas29
  6. #2,782Abe29
  7. #2,782Abhinav29
  8. #2,851Abiel28
  9. #2,851Alexsander28
  10. #2,851Alon28

Tied with 68 names at #2,782; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 1,736Tyrese#2,347#611
  2. 805Zion#1,499#694
  3. 785Mekhi#1,706#921
  4. 743Tyriq#1,519#776
  5. 741Tavian#1,599#858
Fallers
  1. 429Coty#918#1,347
  2. 367Anfernee#838#1,205
  3. 326Jessy#962#1,288
  4. 295Mickey#966#1,261
  5. 280Mikal#1,000#1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1998