Akai

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #9,616 · #1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
Given to boys 93.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
2023 · 102 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,010
since 1975

Akai over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #8,318, 1985girlsboysat peak
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,75392
2024#2,13369
2023#9,61610#1,668102
2022#12,2437#1,80490
2021#2,06071
2020#2,13965
2019#2,22862
2018#13,7936#2,79643
2017#15,9025#2,56649
2016#3,16136
2015#11,8358#3,68429
2014#3,45631
2013#3,06036
2012#3,23134
2011#14,8246#4,82219
2010#13,4487#4,67820
2009#3,91926
2008#13,8327#4,54021
2007#5,66115
2006#4,67519
2005#6,63411
2004#6,13812
2003#5,87712
2002#6,52210
2001#9,2436
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Akai! It came in at #4,309, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Akai
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 380 spots since 2024 (#2,133#1,753)
  • 386 spots since 2020 (#2,139#1,753)
  • 1,931 spots since 2015 (#3,684#1,753)
Rise & fade · boys
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,668 (102 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 16,770
  • Highest: 1 in 16,770 boys born in 2023 were named Akai (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 48.4% of all boys named Akai (489) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1999
  • Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s7#4,309 (1975)#4,309
1980s12#5,332 (1986)#5,928
1990s11#8,704 (1999)#8,752
2000s132#3,919 (2009)#5,912
2010s359#2,228 (2019)#3,368
2020s489#1,668 (2023)#1,926

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.

Akai in 2017

girls
#15,902
5 births · 1 in 345,292 girls
boys
#2,566
49 births · 1 in 37,775 boys

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #15,902Akai5

Top boys' names in 2017

  1. #1Liam18,874
  2. #2Noah18,507
  3. #3William15,046
  4. #4James14,362
  5. #5Logan14,061
  6. #6Benjamin13,858
  7. #7Mason13,602
  8. #8Elijah13,449
  9. #9Jacob13,269
  10. #10Oliver13,224
  11. #2,566Akai49
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 345,292 of them was named Akai, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akai
  1. #14,124Zyleigh6
  2. #14,124Zyllah6
  3. #14,124Zyona6
  4. #15,902Akai5
  5. #15,902Aadilynn5
  6. #15,902Aafiyah5
  7. #15,902Aaheli5

Tied with 2,546 names at #15,902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

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

boys

1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 37,775 of them was named Akai, which outranked 82.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akai
  1. #2,532Townes50
  2. #2,532Treyton50
  3. #2,532Yassin50
  4. #2,566Akai49
  5. #2,566Aariv49
  6. #2,566Akash49
  7. #2,566Alekzander49
  8. #2,597Adair48
  9. #2,597Amadeo48
  10. #2,597Arik48

Tied with 30 names at #2,566; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 497Wells#1,413#916
  2. 419Kairo#1,221#802
  3. 339Caspian#1,199#860
  4. 313Colson#1,049#736
  5. 311Kace#1,183#872
Fallers
  1. 415Riaan#861#1,276
  2. 292Chevy#980#1,272
  3. 245Kylo#904#1,149
  4. 226Braeden#993#1,219
  5. 194Kamdyn#809#1,003

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

See the top 100 for 2017